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Informationen zum Autor David O'Brien resides in Alexandria, Minnesota with his lovely wife, Julie, and his four children- John, Jayme, Kellen, and Kaitlyn. He teaches at Parkers Prairie High School and Central Lakes College. He has hobbies and enjoys doing things sometimes. Klappentext Over the course of the long nineteenth century, Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in Europe and the United States, especially those that speculated on the direction of history. It also underpinned Western depictions of non-Western societies and evaluations of social progress and artistic excellence.The essays in this volume explore the ways in which the idea of Civilisation acted as a lens through which Europeans and Americans represented themselves and others, how this concept reshaped understandings of historical and artistic development, and also how it changed and was put to new uses as the century progressed. This collection will prove invaluable to students and academics in both history and art history. Zusammenfassung "This volume grew out of two sessions at the Annual Conference for the College Art Assocation in Los Angeles in 2012"--P. xiii. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: What was civilization? - David O'Brien1. Theism and the civilizing process in James Barry's Society of Arts Murals - Daniel Guernsey2. Evaluating others: the mirroring of Chinese civilization in Britain - Greg Thomas3. Civilization as a suffering woman in nineteenth-century River Plate - Laura Malosetti Costa 4. Civilizing Rome: Anglo-American artists and the colonial encounter - Melissa Dabakis 5. Kultur and Zivilisation in 1842-43 or, the failure of the first global art history - Jeanne-Marie Musto6. Civilization and the encyclopedic impulse: Hokusai, Diderot, and the Japanese album as encyclopédie - Emily Brink 7. Second Rome or seat of savagery? Byzantium in nineteenth-century European imaginaries - Maria Taroutina 8. Going native/going British: Victorian mimesis, alterity and repetition - Julie Codell 9. Pre-Columbian civilization as cultural patrimony: archaeology and nationalism at the World's Fairs - Matthew Johnston BibliographyIndex...
