Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

How Do We Look - The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

Name: How Do We Look - The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
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ISBN: 9781631494406

By Mary Beard

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Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define th...Show more

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