How do we look? : the body, the divine, and the question of civilisation
Book |
First American edition. |
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton and Company,
New York :
2018.
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About
"From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity"--
Details
- ISBN: 9781631494406 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cmprint
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton and Company, 2018.
- General Note: This book is an accompaniment to two episodes, out of a total of nine, of the television program Civilisations presented by Mary Beard.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (page 211-226) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: A history of looking -- Part 1: The body in question -- Prologue: Heads and bodies -- A singing statue -- Greek bodies -- The look of loss: from Greece to Rome -- The Emperor of China and the power of images -- Supersizing a pharaoh -- The Greek revolution -- The stain on the thigh -- The revolution's legacy -- The Olmec wrestler -- Part 2: The eye of faith -- Prologue: Sunrise at Angkor Wat -- Who's looking? "Cave art" at Ajanta -- Who or what was Jesus? -- Questions of vanity -- A living statue? -- The artfulness of Islam -- Bible stories -- The scars of battle -- Hindu images, Islamic idioms -- Faith in civilisation -- Afterword: Looking at civilisation.