Inferno: A Coleção de Arte (Portuguese Edition) by Dino Di Durante,Armand Mastroianni,Claudia Trein,Barbara

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The overdue 5th century BC used to be the golden age of historic Athens. less than the management of the popular 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 success in sculpture, vase portray, and structure, which supplied carrying on with concept 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 routine, and some of the most specific and influential was once 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 wider popularity of the political, financial, and cultural forces which are chargeable for our ongoing environmental problem. 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 lifestyles and artwork are one and an analogous, for the foremost lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In paintings one is making an attempt to precise it within the easiest inventive means, as within the paintings of earlier civilizations, for attractiveness and fact are the single issues which reside 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 ladies and for eastern americans over her seventy-year profession.