Salzburg: Sounds of Migration: Geschichte und aktuelle by Wolfgang Gratzer,Sylvia Hahn,Michael Malkiewicz,Sabine

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The overdue 5th century BC was once the golden age of historical Athens. below 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 suggestion 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 track, artwork, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many activities, and some of the most precise and influential used to be a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski bargains 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 targeting environmental deterioration represents a much wider popularity of the political, financial, and cultural forces which are chargeable for our ongoing environmental situation. 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 switch.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me existence and paintings are one and an analogous, for the most important lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In paintings one is making an attempt to specific it within the least difficult innovative approach, as within the artwork of earlier civilizations, for attractiveness 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 many times defied traditional function expectancies for ladies and for jap americans over her seventy-year profession.