The Art of Civilization
The Art of Civilization

Author: Didier Maleuvre

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 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.

Art & Civilization
Art & Civilization

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781856690270

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This book explores the concept of civilization in terms of ways of thinking, building, painting, sculpting, writing and making music. It focuses on specific works, artistic and literary. each of the eight parts begins with a general introduction to the historical backgroun, and then explores in turn the major developments, of that era.

Discoveries: Prehistoric Art and Civilization
Discoveries: Prehistoric Art and Civilization

Author: Denis Vialou

Publisher:

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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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.

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

Author: Heinrich Robert Zimmer

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 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.

Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization
Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization

Author: Thomas Hoving

Publisher: Artisan Publishers

Published: 1997-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 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.

Art and Labor
Art and Labor

Author: Eileen Boris

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Eileen Boris explores the ways in which the Arts and Crafts Movement was related to the trends of its time. She both describes the leading participants and puts the movement into a new and larger context that involves labor as well as art.