Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Si?e France: by Robyn Roslak

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The past due 5th century BC used to be the golden age of historical Athens. lower 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 creative success in sculpture, vase portray, and structure, which supplied carrying on with notion for plenty 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, artwork, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many events, and probably the most detailed and influential used to be 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)

Pictures of environmental catastrophe and degradation became a part of our daily media vitamin. This visible tradition concentrating on environmental deterioration represents a much broader acceptance of the political, fiscal, and cultural forces which are accountable for our ongoing environmental main issue. And but efforts to elevate wisdom 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 lifestyles and paintings are one and a similar, for the main lies in one's wisdom of individuals and lifestyles. In artwork one is attempting to precise it within the easiest inventive manner, as within the paintings of previous civilizations, for good looks and fact are the one issues which stay undying and ageless. � - Min� OkuboThis is the 1st book-length severe exam of the lifestyles and paintings of Min� Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, author, and social activist who time and again defied traditional function expectancies for ladies and for eastern americans over her seventy-year profession.