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Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The past due 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 creative fulfillment in sculpture, vase portray, and structure, which supplied carrying on with idea 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 track, artwork, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many activities, and the most detailed and influential was once a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski deals a compelling account of that circulate.

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 targeting environmental deterioration represents a much wider reputation of the political, financial, and cultural forces which are chargeable for our ongoing environmental main issue. And but efforts to elevate expertise 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 existence and paintings are one and an analogous, for the most important lies in one's wisdom of individuals and lifestyles. In artwork one is making an attempt to precise it within the least difficult imaginitive method, as within the artwork of earlier civilizations, for good looks 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 jap american citizens over her seventy-year occupation.