From Drawing to Visual Culture: A History of Art Education by Harold Pearse

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The overdue 5th century BC was once the golden age of historic Athens. lower 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 fulfillment 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 tune, artwork, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many routine, and probably the most exact and influential used to be a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski bargains a compelling account of that move.

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 targeting environmental deterioration represents a much wider attractiveness of the political, financial, and cultural forces which are chargeable for our ongoing environmental quandary. 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 swap.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me existence and artwork are one and an analogous, for the main lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In artwork one is attempting to precise it within the least difficult resourceful manner, as within the paintings of earlier civilizations, for attractiveness and fact are the one issues which reside 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 again and again defied traditional function expectancies for ladies and for eastern american citizens over her seventy-year occupation.