Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

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Mary Beard

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«An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention»
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'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator

'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow

'Excellent' Guardian

'Enthralling' Sunday Times

Britain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?

Central to this huge question are the ways in which we have depicted the human and the divine from prehistory to the present day. And across such iconic creations as Angkor Wat, the Ravenna mosaics and China's terracotta army, one ancient representation of the human body still influences (or distorts) how people in the West see not only their own culture but that of others.

From idolatry to iconoclasm, Mary Beard shines her spotlight on the artists who made art, and on those who have used, viewed, or interpreted it - and asked how to look with the eye of faith.

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Forlag: Profile Books Ltd
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN: 9781805222460
Utgivelsesår: 2024
Format: 13 x 20 cm

Om forfatteren

Mary Beard is Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has worldwide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, Confronting the Classics, SPQR, Women & Power and most recently, Emperor of Rome. She has made numerous television series and her books have been published in over thirty languages.

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«An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention»
Financial Times

«Slim yet insightful. . . . Beard expands her view beyond western Europe to offer an admirable survey of cultures from Egypt to China, Judaism to Christianity, centuries past to the modern era, all while emphasizing the significance of the viewer over the artist. . . . As Beard emphasizes the power of the context in which we look at and interpret art, she ultimately suggests that civilization itself is a leap of faith. Beard is having fun in this joyfully accessible primer, backed with a robust appendix, for all interested in a new perspective on religion, art, and history.»
Booklist

«Praise for Mary Beard: What she says is always powerful and interesting»
Guardian

«If they'd had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire»
Daily Mail

«[She] implicitly invites us to think about our own world, and about our answers to the question of what makes us human»
Sydney Morning Herald

«Praise for SPQR: Fast-moving, exciting, psychologically acute, warmly sceptical»
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

«Vastly engaging ... a tremendously enjoyable and scholarly read»
Natalie Haynes, Observer

«Masterful ... This is exemplary popular history, engaging but never dumbed down, providing both the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life»
Economist