Lusitania: Kulturgeschichte einer Katastrophe (German by Willi Jasper

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The past due 5th century BC was once the golden age of historic Athens. less than 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 fulfillment in sculpture, vase portray, and structure, which supplied carrying on with notion for lots 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, artwork, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many events, and the most designated and influential used to be 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 broader reputation of the political, financial, and cultural forces which are liable for our ongoing environmental quandary. And but efforts to elevate know-how 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 existence and artwork are one and an identical, for the foremost lies in one's wisdom of individuals and lifestyles. In artwork one is making an attempt to specific it within the least difficult innovative manner, as within the paintings of prior civilizations, for attractiveness and fact are the one issues which stay 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 profession.