Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Parthenon, Confronting the Classics and most recently, SPQR (which has sold over 140,000 copies and been translated into twenty-two languages).Find her on Twitter @wmarybeard
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama
The idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depicted themselves and others, both human and divine. Distinguished historian Mary Beard explores how art has shaped, and been shaped by, the people who created it. How have we looked at these images? Why have they sometimes been so contentious?
In Part One, she examines how the human figure was portrayed in some of the earliest art in the world - from the gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec of Central America to the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks to the terracotta army of the first emperor of China. And she explains how one particular version of representing the human body, which goes back to the ancient world, still influences (and sometimes distorts) how people in the West see their own culture and that of others. Throughout this story, she is concerned not only with the artists who made images, but with those who have used them, viewed them and interpreted them. In other words: How Do We Look?
In Part Two, Mary Beard turns to the relationship between art and religion. For centuries, religion has inspired art: from the Hindu temple at Angkor Wat to the Christian mosaics of Ravenna to the exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques. But making the divine visible in the human world has never been simple. All religions have wrestled with idolatry and iconoclasm, destroying art as well as creating it - and asking how to look with The Eye of Faith.
發表於2024-12-23
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因為之前看過同名紀錄片《文明》,非常好看,對其中把同時期全球各類型文明的藝術作品橫嚮放在一個維度進行對比,觀點新穎,所以對同名書籍很有好感。趁著陪娃復習期末考試,順手打開翻閱,讀起來竟然很順暢,圖文結閤,三天很快讀完第一冊。 本書取材廣泛、視角新穎,帶領讀者...
評分《文明》一書來源於2018年英國古典學傢瑪麗·比爾德為英國廣播公司撰寫的紀錄片《文明》(Civilisations),該紀錄片將1969年肯尼斯·剋拉剋版的《文明》(Civilisation)進行“革新”,文明一詞從單數到復數的變化啓發人們重新思考“文明”是什麼這一問題,批判性地看待西方文...
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評分《文明》一書來源於2018年英國古典學傢瑪麗·比爾德為英國廣播公司撰寫的紀錄片《文明》(Civilisations),該紀錄片將1969年肯尼斯·剋拉剋版的《文明》(Civilisation)進行“革新”,文明一詞從單數到復數的變化啓發人們重新思考“文明”是什麼這一問題,批判性地看待西方文...
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