Col-leccio D'art Japones (Catalan Edition) by Julien Coallier

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The overdue 5th century BC used to be the golden age of old Athens. less than the management of the well known soldier-statesman Perikles, Athenians all 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 track, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many events, and some of the most specified and influential was once a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski deals a compelling account of that move.

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 nutrition. This visible tradition concentrating on environmental deterioration represents a much wider acceptance of the political, fiscal, and cultural forces which are accountable for our ongoing environmental problem. And but efforts to elevate expertise 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 switch.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me lifestyles and paintings are one and an identical, for the most important lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In paintings one is attempting to specific it within the easiest creative manner, as within the artwork of earlier civilizations, for attractiveness and fact are the one issues which dwell 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 many times defied traditional position expectancies for girls and for jap american citizens over her seventy-year occupation.