How do we look?
Subtitle: the body, the divine, and the question of civilization
By: Mary Beard
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781631494406
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Art and religion; Human beings in art; History
Other titles: Civilisations (Television program : 2018)
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 211-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A history of looking; title: Part 1: The body in question; title: Prologue: Heads and bodies; title: A singing statue; title: Greek bodies; title: The look of loss: from Greece to Rome; title: The Emperor of China and the power of images; title: Supersizing a pharaoh; title: The Greek revolution; title: The stain on the thigh; title: The revolution's legacy; title: The Olmec wrestler; title: Part 2: The eye of faith; title: Prologue: Sunrise at Angkor Wat; title: Who's looking? "Cave art" at Ajanta; title: Who or what was Jesus?; title: Questions of vanity; title: A living statue?; title: The artfulness of Islam; title: Bible stories; title: The scars of battle; title: Hindu images, Islamic idioms; title: Faith in civilisation; title: Afterword: Looking at civilisation.