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How do we look : the body, the divine, and the question of civilisation / Mary Beard.
A companion to PBS' "Civilizations" chronicles the intertwined histories of art and religion to explain the irreconcilable problems that all faiths have navigated while trying to represent the divine.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631494406
- Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in Great Britain under the title Civilisations: how to we look/the eye of faith." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 211-226) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: A history of looking -- Part 1: The body in question -- Part 2: The eye of faith. |
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| Subject: | Human beings in art > History. Art and religion. |
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- 12 of 12 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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| Afterword: Looking at Civilisation | 205 | (6) | |||
| Further Reading and References | 211 | (16) | |||
| Major Sites and Locations | 227 | (2) | |||
| Acknowledgments | 229 | (1) | |||
| Timeline | 230 | (2) | |||
| List of Illustrations | 232 | (4) | |||
| Index | 236 |
