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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The history of art is about how we look. It is not only about the men and women who created the images that fill our world, from cheap trinkets to priceless masterpieces. We must consider the controversies, discussions, and debates around any such masterpieces.
#2 Part One focuses on the art of the body, and how it has been portrayed around the world. It asks what those images were for and how they were viewed.
#3 The idea that the female nude implies a predatory male gaze was not first thought up in the 1960s feminism. It was first seen in classical Greece, and some of the earliest intellectuals argued fiercely about the rights and wrongs of portraying gods in human form.
#4 The concept of civilization is a process of exclusion as well as inclusion. It is difficult to define, but it is typically used to describe cultures that share certain values.

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Classical

Art

Ancient

History

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	08 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822504189
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The history of art is about how we look. It is not only about the men and women who created the images that fill our world, from cheap trinkets to priceless masterpieces. We must consider the controversies, discussions, and debates around any such masterpieces.

#2

Part One focuses on the art of the body, and how it has been portrayed around the world. It asks what those images were for and how they were viewed.

#3

The idea that the female nude implies a predatory male gaze was not first thought up in the 1960s feminism. It was first seen in classical Greece, and some of the earliest intellectuals argued fiercely about the rights and wrongs of portraying gods in human form.

#4

The concept of civilization is a process of exclusion as well as inclusion. It is difficult to define, but it is typically used to describe cultures that share certain values.

#5

I will be examining images from the past with the same suspicious eyes that we usually keep for modern autocrats. It is important to remember that plenty of ancient Egyptian viewers were just as cynical about the colossal statues of their rulers.

#6

The ancient world is present all around us, if we only take the time to look. For example, there is a corner of the Mexican jungle that is home to a colossal stone head dating from the Olmec civilization, which was the first in central America.

#7

The head is an enigmatic artifact. It is hard to explain why it was created, and why it is just a head and not even a complete one. It was carved using only stone tools, but why.

#8

The Olmec were a Pre-Columbian people who lived in the region of modern-day Mexico. They were first encountered by the Aztec in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries CE, and were given the name Olmec meaning rubber people by the Aztec.

#9

Art has always been about us. The human body has been a central theme in art since the beginning. I want to explore how these early images of the body were used and understood by the people who lived with them.

#10

In 130 CE, Hadrian and his entourage arrived in the Egyptian city of Luxor. By then, the imperial party had been on the road for months. The atmosphere around the emperor was tense, as only weeks earlier, Hadrian had lost his greatest love, Antinous.

#11

The emperor visited the most famous heritage site in Egypt, and one of the greatest five-star tourist attractions in the whole of Rome. He was not going to be deterred by personal tragedy or guilt.

#12

The statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, sixty-five feet high, were originally put up in the fourteenth century BCE to guard outside his mortuary temple. By Hadrian’s day, almost a millennium and a half later, the connection with the pharaoh had been largely forgotten.

#13

The singing statue of Memnon was a tourist attraction in Rome. It was a clear sign that the noise was not produced by anything so biddable as boys around the back.