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How To Read World History in Art
How does an artist’s interpretation of historical events alter our understanding of them? Kings, queens, presidents, and generals from Alexander the Great to Theodore Roosevelt have commissioned paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs of major events, and artists have responded to important moments with works that forever shape historical memory. The book deals with specific episodes, from the proclamation of the Code of Hammurabi to more recent events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It also deals with broader themes, such as the founding of states (Persia, Rome, the Chinese Empire, the United States) and war (Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, Picasso’s Guernica). Here too are the great voyages of exploration, the industrial revolution, and much more. World history is vividly elucidated in these works of art.
Making Curriculum Pop
From body art to baseball cards, comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads . . . students need help navigating today’s media-rich world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent across all media—including both print and nonprint texts, such as film, TV, podcasts, websites, visual art, fashion, architecture, landscape, and music. This book offers secondary teachers in all content areas a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to integrate these literacies into their curriculum. Students form cooperative learning groups to evaluate media texts from various perspectives (artist, producer, sociologist, sound mixer, economist, poet, set designer, and more) and show their thinking using unique graphic organizers aligned to the Common Core State Standards
The Artist and the Warrior
How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century--paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, engravings, architecture, and photographs--and documents the evolving nature of warfare as artists have perceived it. The selected works represent landmarks in the history of art and are drawn mainly from the western tradition, though important examples from Japan, India, and the Middle East are also brought into the discussion. Together these works tell a story of long centuries dur...
Acta Periodica Duellatorum (vol. 7, issue 1)
Acta Periodica Duellatorum (APD) is an independent, international, and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Historical European Martial Arts studies. This emerging field of research has interdisciplinary dimensions, including notably History, Anthropology, Historical sciences, Art History, History of Science and Technology, Archaeology, Sport Sciences, etc. APD was founded in 2013 and publishes two issues per year from 2016 onwards. APD is a non-profit association, based in Switzerland. It is supported by institutional grants, donators/partners and by its readers. The journal is published electronically (Open Access) and printed for subscribed readers and institutions.
Bearing God's Name
What does the Old Testament—especially the law—have to do with your Christian life? In this warm, accessible volume, Carmen Joy Imes takes readers back to Sinai, arguing that we've misunderstood the command about "taking the Lord's name in vain." Instead, Imes says that this command is really about "bearing God's name," a theme that continues throughout the rest of Scripture.
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Il secolo dei media
A partire dagli anni novanta, complice la diffusione di Internet e l'avvento di smartphone e social network, la nostra società ha subito trasformazioni radicali. Ma per comprendere il ruolo che i media hanno nel presente, e come gestire le sfide che ci pongono, dobbiamo distinguere cosa sia realmente inedito e cosa invece non somigli più a un ricorso storico, e soprattutto osservare ciò che abbiamo ereditato dal secolo dei media, il Novecento. Peppino Ortoleva ricostruisce la storia dei media dal secolo scorso a oggi e analizza i cambiamenti che questi hanno portato nel modo in cui comunichiamo. Muovendosi tra storiografia e antropologia, si sofferma tanto sulle scelte politiche implicite...
L'ultimo treno
Tra il 1943 e il 1945 più di trentamila persone – uomini, donne, vecchi e bambini – affollano le stazioni dell’Italia centro-settentrionale e partono verso l’ignoto, stipate su treni merci e carri bestiame. L’appassionante studio di Carlo Greppi ricostruisce proprio questa fase essenziale nell’esperienza dei deportati e nella memoria dei salvati, il viaggio verso il lager, e lo fa ripercorrendo le vicende di decine di comunità viaggianti, attraverso le voci di centoventi sopravvissuti. Lo scorrere angosciato del tempo nei vagoni piombati, dove i nazisti sono solo figure sfocate, riempie le narrazioni dei testimoni e accompagna il racconto dei comportamenti dei fascisti, della f...
