Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture by Irit Rogoff

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The overdue 5th century BC used to be the golden age of historic 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 proposal 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 tune, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many hobbies, and the most targeted and influential was once a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski bargains a compelling account of that move.

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 wider reputation of the political, fiscal, and cultural forces which are answerable for our ongoing environmental concern. 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 switch.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me existence and artwork are one and an identical, for the most important lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In paintings one is attempting to specific it within the least difficult inventive approach, as within the paintings of previous civilizations, for good looks and fact are the single issues which stay undying and ageless. � - Min� OkuboThis is the 1st book-length serious exam of the existence and paintings of Min� Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, author, and social activist who again and again defied traditional function expectancies for ladies and for eastern americans over her seventy-year occupation.