The History of Western Art - Peter Whitfield torrent

Category: Art, History
Language: English
Keywords: Art Culture History

Written by Peter Whitfield
Read by Sebastian Comberti
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 11-15-11

Publisher’s Summary

What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic.

From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the 19th and 20th centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind. He has always started with reality, but has selected and reshaped that reality to create a parallel world; a world of the imagination.