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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 202 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
America's premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that brought her fame, tackling the great themes of Western art in an enthralling tour through more than two dozen seminal images, some famous and others obscure or unknown.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century. In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty- first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. 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"--
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