The Hovey Murals at Dartmouth College: Culture and Contexts by Brian P. Kennedy,Colin G. Calloway,Mary Coffey,Rayna

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

The past due 5th century BC used to be the golden age of old Athens. lower than the management of the popular soldier-statesman Perikles, Athenians begun 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 song, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many pursuits, and some of the most specified and influential used to be a flip to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski bargains a compelling account of that flow.

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 concentrating on environmental deterioration represents a much broader reputation of the political, fiscal, 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 swap.

Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road

�To me lifestyles and paintings are one and a similar, for the foremost lies in one's wisdom of individuals and existence. In paintings one is making an attempt to specific it within the easiest imaginitive means, as within the artwork of prior civilizations, for attractiveness and fact are the one issues which reside 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 many times defied traditional function expectancies for ladies and for eastern americans over her seventy-year occupation.