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Mesopotamia: Civilization Begi by POTTS TIMOTHY
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq, was home to the remarkable ancient civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria. From the rise of the first cities around 3500 BCE, through the mighty empires of Nineveh and Babylon, to the demise of its native culture around 100 CE, Mesopotamia produced some of ...Show more
Noir by Lee Hendrix
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed, ...Show more
North of Dixie - Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South by Mark Speltz; Deborah Willis (Preface by)
Category: Popular History | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma--leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs o ...Show more
Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists` Visions by Donatien Grau
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect indebted to the famous philosopher and the Platonic tra ...Show more
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