Civilizations: images of people and gods in the art from ancient world to our days | Канцтовары для офиса и дома

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The idea of "civilization" has always been discussed. These discussions are based on the great question of as our ancestors-from antiquity to our days-portrayed themselves and others as humans, so is God. The outstanding historian Mary Bird is exploring how art was formed and created by people who created it. How did we look at these images? Why were they so controversial sometimes?

Book pages More about the bookThe idea of "civilization" has always been discussed. These discussions are based on the great question of as our ancestors-from antiquity to our days-portrayed themselves and others as humans, so is God. The outstanding historian Mary Bird is exploring how art was formed and created by people who created it. How did we look at these images? Why were they so controversial sometimes?

In the first part, she studies, as a human figure depicted in one of the earliest works of art in the world-from giant stone heads, carved by the olmecks of Central America, to the statues and clay products of ancient Greek to the Terracotta Army of the first emperor of China. It explains how one particular version of the human body view that dates back to the ancient world, still affects (and sometimes distorts) then, as people in the West see their own culture and culture of others. Throughout this story, she is interested not only in artists who made images, but also in those who used them, viewed and interpreted them. In other words: what do we look like?

In the second part of Mary Bird refers to the relationship between art and religion. For centuries, religion inspired the art of: from the Hindu temple in Angkor Wat to the Christian mosaic of Ravenna and exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques.Shipping

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