Paul Guyer's Sacramento CityScapes by Paul Guyer

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The overdue 5th century BC was once the golden age of old Athens. lower 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 inventive success in sculpture, vase portray, and structure, which supplied carrying on with idea 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, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many routine, and some of the most special and influential was once a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski deals a compelling account of that stream.

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 concentrating on environmental deterioration represents a much broader reputation of the political, fiscal, and cultural forces which are liable for our ongoing environmental trouble. And but efforts to elevate expertise 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 swap.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me existence and paintings are one and an analogous, for the major lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In paintings one is attempting to precise it within the least difficult resourceful means, as within the artwork of earlier civilizations, for good looks and fact are the single issues which dwell 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 position expectancies for girls and for eastern americans over her seventy-year occupation.