02132cam a2200313 i 4500 351861293 TxAuBib 20180910120000.0 180705s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2018134908 9781631494406 24.95 1631494406 24.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Beard, Mary, 1955- How do we look [BOOK] : the body, the divine, and the question of civilization / Mary Beard. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018. 240 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "First published in Great Britain under the title Civilisations: How Do We Look/The Eye of Faith" -Title page verso. Includes bibliography and index. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world. In Part II, Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever made-whether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers- to show how all religions, ancient and modern, have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine. With this classic volume, Beard redefines the Western-and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth Clark. Provided by publisher. 20180910. Civilization in art. Human beings in art History. Art and society. Art and religion.