75 Grad: Das Geheimnis der Lanze (German Edition) by Jamon Ramirez,Arnd Waleczek

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The past due 5th century BC used to be the golden age of historic Athens. lower than the management of the popular soldier-statesman Perikles, Athenians started rebuilding the Akropolis, the place they created the nonetheless awe-inspiring Parthenon. Athenians additionally reached a zenith of inventive success in sculpture, vase portray, and structure, which supplied carrying on with suggestion for lots of succeeding generations.

Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature

The triumph of avant-gardes within the Twenties has a tendency to dominate our discussions of the tune, artwork, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many events, and the most detailed and influential used to be a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski deals a compelling account of that circulation.

Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region (Leonardo Book Series)

Photographs of environmental catastrophe and degradation became a part of our daily media vitamin. This visible tradition targeting environmental deterioration represents a much broader reputation of the political, monetary, and cultural forces which are liable for our ongoing environmental predicament. And but efforts to elevate knowledge approximately environmental matters via electronic and visible media are riddled with irony, as the source extraction, production, transportation, and waste linked to electronic units give a contribution to environmental harm and weather swap.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me existence and paintings are one and an identical, for the foremost lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In artwork one is attempting to specific it within the easiest creative means, as within the artwork of prior civilizations, for attractiveness and fact are the one issues which stay undying and ageless. � - Min� OkuboThis is the 1st book-length severe exam of the existence and paintings of Min� Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, author, and social activist who time and again defied traditional function expectancies for ladies and for eastern american citizens over her seventy-year profession.