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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: How people engage with art shapes its meaning across places and through time.
Chapter 3: Human depictions have long served to recall the dead and help us confront and process loss in our lives.
Chapter 4: Art was often employed to demonstrate power directed at both subjects and the rulers themselves alike.
Chapter 5: As it grew more realistic, ancient art’s ties to civilization shifted.
Chapter 6: To grasp the true meaning of religious art, watch how believers interact with it in ritual, devotion, and practice.
Chapter 7: Art can enable religious experiences inviting participation from the faithful.
Chapter 8: Iconoclasts may reject images, yet they don’t necessarily erase them completely or everywhere.
Chapter 9: Religious art asks which kinds of images can most effectively represent the divine to believers.
Description
Civilizations (2018) is the companion to a major new BBC documentary series co-presented by renowned classical historian Mary Beard. Divided into two parts, it takes a close look at the relationship between civilization and artistic representation. Beginning with the history of depictions of the human form, Beard moves on to cast an eye over the long and intimate relationship between art and religion over the centuries.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who loved the BBC’s Civilisations series
- Art lovers and museumgoers
- Fans of large-scale comparative history