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Author : Runoko RASHIDI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993503683
Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0674076265
Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.
Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0674063813
In this account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Snowden shows that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. He sheds light on the reasons for the absence in antiquity of virulent color prejudice and for the difference in attitudes of whites toward blacks in ancient and modern societies.
Author : Stine Birk,Troels Myrup Kristensen,Birte Poulsen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782972648
Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period’s visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts. The contributors present a diverse range of evidence, including mosaics, sculpture, and architecture from all parts of the Mediterranean, from Spain in the west to Jordan in the east. Contributions span from the depiction of individuals on funerary monuments through monumental epigraphy, Constantine’s expropriation and symbolic re-use of earlier monuments, late antique collections of Classical statuary, and city personifications in mosaics to the topic of civic prosperity during the Theodosian period and dynastic representation during the Umayyad dynasty. Together they provide new insights into the central role of visual culture in the constitution of late antique societies.
Author : Jean Vercoutter,Menil Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000023192010
Author : David Bindman,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.),Karen C. C. Dalton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674052617
"A pioneering work in the field of art history, The Image of the Black in Western Art is a comprehensive series of ten books which offers a lavishly illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent from antiquity to the present. Each book includes a series of essays by some of the most distinguished names in art history. Ranging from images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands almost 3,500 years ago to the works of the great masters of European and American art such as Bosch, Dürer, Mantegna, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Hogarth, Copley, and Goya to stunning new media creations by contemporary black artists, these books are generously illustrated with beautiful, moving, and often little-known images of black people. Black figures-queens and slaves, saints and soldiers, priests and prisoners, dancers and athletes, children and gods-are central to the visual imagination of Western civilization. Written in accessible language, the extensive and insightful commentaries on the illustrations by distinguished art historians make this series invaluable for the general reader and the specialist alike."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : J. Raven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230524255
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Author : David Bindman,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.),Karen C. C. Dalton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and race
ISBN : 0674052587
"A pioneering work in the field of art history, The Image of the Black in Western Art is a comprehensive series of ten books which offers a lavishly illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent from antiquity to the present. Each book includes a series of essays by some of the most distinguished names in art history. Ranging from images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands almost 3,500 years ago to the works of the great masters of European and American art such as Bosch, Dürer, Mantegna, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Hogarth, Copley, and Goya to stunning new media creations by contemporary black artists, these books are generously illustrated with beautiful, moving, and often little-known images of black people. Black figures-queens and slaves, saints and soldiers, priests and prisoners, dancers and athletes, children and gods-are central to the visual imagination of Western civilization. Written in accessible language, the extensive and insightful commentaries on the illustrations by distinguished art historians make this series invaluable for the general reader and the specialist alike."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Ivan Van Sertima
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005566455
This unique volume provides an overview of the black queens, madonnas, and goddesses who dominated the history and imagination of ancient times. The authors have concentrated on Ethiopia and Egypt because the documents of the Nile Valley are voluminous compared to the sketchier records in other parts of Africa, but also because the imagination of the world, not just that of Africa, was haunted by these women. They are just as prominent a feature of European mythology as of African reality. The book is divided into three parts: Ethiopia and Egyptian Queens and Goddesses; Black Women in Ancient Art; and Conquerors and Courtesans. This second edition contains two new chapters, one on Hypatia and women's rights in ancient Egypt, and the other on the diffusion into Europe of Isis, the African goddess of Nile Valley civilizations.
Author : Lionel Corbett
Publisher : Chiron Publications
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781630519865
This book describes the development of images of God, beginning in antiquity and culminating in Jung’s notion of the Self, an image of God in the psyche that Jung calls the God within. Over the course of history, the Self has been projected onto many local gods and goddesses and given different names and attributes. These deities are typically imagined as existing in a heavenly realm, but Jung’s approach recalls them to their origins in the objective psyche. This book shows how Jung’s approach avoids many of the philosophical problems produced by traditional anthropomorphic images of God and describes the myriad symbolic ways in which the Self may appear, independently of doctrinal images of God. By focusing on the empirical, psychological manifestations of the Self, Jung’s approach avoids arguments for and against the existence of a metaphysical God.
Author : Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815827
This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.
Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107192652
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.
Author : David Bindman,Henry Louis Gates,Karen C. C. Dalton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Black people in art
ISBN : 0674052595
Author : Luca Giuliani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226025902
On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients. Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. He reveals that developments in Greek vase painting were driven as much by the times as they were by tradition—the better-known the story, the less leeway the artists had in interpreting it. As literary culture transformed from an oral tradition, in which stories were always in flux, to the stability of written texts, the images produced by artists eventually became nothing more than illustrations of canonical works. At once a work of cultural and art history, Image and Myth builds a new way of understanding the visual culture of ancient Greece.
Author : Ambrose Lansing
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This picture book features images of Ancient Egyptian Jewelry covering works from Pre-dynastic shell necklaces to intricately designed gold earrings of the Roman period. A brief introductory essay discusses the history of jewelry and the evolution of Ancient Egyptian jewelry craftsmanship.
