Civilisations How Do We Look The Eye of Faith
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Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS,
presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon SchamaThe 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.
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