[PDF] The Art Of Civilization eBook

Author : Didier Maleuvre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349948691

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Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art itself is the history civilization, giving rise to the particular aesthetics and critical attitudes of respective moments and movements in changing civilizations in a dialogical mode. Building a visual cultural account of shifting forms of culture, power, and subjectivity, Maleuvre illustrates how art gave a pattern and a language to the model of social authority rather than simply functioning as a reflective one. Through a broad cultural study of the relationship between humanity, art, and the culture of civilization, Maleuvre introduces a new set of paradigms that critique and affirm the relationship between humanity and art, arguing for it as an engine of social reproduction that transforms how culture is inhabited.

Author : Arnold Rubin
Publisher : University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Body piercing, scarification, tattooing - for thousands of years decorative alteration of the human body has been invested with profound cultural and social meaning. This collection of essays, photographs and drawings focuses on the many and diverse ways that human beings have permanently decorated their bodies.

Author : Thomas Hoving
Publisher : Artisan Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 1997-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781885183538

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A former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York chooses the 111 works of art--culled from the entire history of Western civilization--that have influenced him most, reproduced in full-color and complemented by his interpretations. Tour.

Author : Denis Vialou
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Discusses prehistoric civilization as represented by art and artifacts of the period, including weapons and tools, architecture, cave paintings, engravings, and statues.

Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Survey of the arts and ideas of Western Civilization from Paleolithic times to the present.

Author : Heinrich Robert Zimmer
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Hindu art
ISBN : 9788120807518

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This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.

Author : Mitchell Kalpakgian
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2014-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1618906623

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In a world gone crazy one might wonder if simple acts of civility are worth the trouble. Dressing with dignity, writing letters, and innocent courtship are just some of the lost arts of kindness and integrity that Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian tries to dig up and dust off, imploring us to regain the honor and worth our society once had. These noble habits of living fill common life with an abundance of simple pleasures that adorn day to day existence. The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization will inspire you to seek out and nourish the simple joys that lift the spirit, rejoice the heart, and enliven the mind.

Author : Michael Brooks
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1524748994

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An illuminating, millennia-spanning history of the impact mathematics has had on the world, and the fascinating people who have mastered its inherent power Counting is not innate to our nature, and without education humans can rarely count past three — beyond that, it’s just “more.” But once harnessed by our ancestors, the power of numbers allowed humanity to flourish in ways that continue to lead to discoveries and enrich our lives today. Ancient tax collectors used basic numeracy to fuel the growth of early civilization, navigators used clever geometrical tricks to engage in trade and connect people across vast distances, astronomers used logarithms to unlock the secrets of the heavens, and their descendants put them to use to land us on the moon. In every case, mathematics has proved to be a greatly underappreciated engine of human progress. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks acts as our guide through the ages. He makes the case that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has since then been instrumental in every great leap of humankind. Here are ancient Egyptian priests, Babylonian bureaucrats, medieval architects, dueling Swiss brothers, renaissance painters, and an eccentric professor who invented the infrastructure of the online world. Their stories clearly demonstrate that the invention of mathematics was every bit as important to the human species as was the discovery of fire. From first page to last, The Art of More brings mathematics back into the heart of what it means to be human.