Boats, Barns & Bungalows by T. Hempel

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The past due 5th century BC used to be the golden age of historical Athens. below 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 concept for plenty of succeeding generations.

Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature

The triumph of avant-gardes within the Nineteen Twenties has a tendency to dominate our discussions of the song, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many routine, and some of the most particular and influential used to be a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski deals a compelling account of that stream.

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

Photos of environmental catastrophe and degradation became a part of our daily media vitamin. This visible tradition concentrating on environmental deterioration represents a much wider reputation of the political, fiscal, and cultural forces which are accountable for our ongoing environmental drawback. And but efforts to elevate knowledge approximately environmental concerns 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 switch.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me lifestyles and artwork are one and a similar, for the foremost lies in one's wisdom of individuals and lifestyles. In artwork one is attempting to specific it within the least difficult innovative manner, as within the paintings of earlier civilizations, for attractiveness and fact are the one issues which dwell undying and ageless. � - Min� OkuboThis is the 1st book-length serious exam of the lifestyles and paintings of Min� Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, author, and social activist who many times defied traditional function expectancies for ladies and for eastern american citizens over her seventy-year occupation.