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Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods: Altars and Contemporary Creation

Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods: Altars and Contemporary Creation - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bérengère Primat, Jean Hubert MartinPublish date:5/27/2025Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Five Continents EditionsISBN-13:9791254600870UPC:9791254600870Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Mixed Media, HistoryBook Topic:Religious, 20th & 21st CenturySize:10.87 x 9.13 x 0.79 inchesWeight:2.6015Product ID:SC158KBDQ6

Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods: Altars and Contemporary Creation

This book argues that globalisation challenges the Western idea of art and explores how different cultures express spirituality through art. Text in English and French.

Globalization has forced us to stop thinking that art only exists in the West. The very notion of art was invented by the West and refers to the learned version of its material culture. It was then projected onto other...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Five Continents EditionsISBN-13:9791254600870UPC:9791254600870Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Mixed Media, HistoryBook Topic:Religious, 20th & 21st CenturySize:10.87 x 9.13 x 0.79 inchesWeight:2.6015Product ID:SC158KBDQ6
Jean Hubert Martin is an art historian of international standing. He is known especially for his remarkable contribution to the Francis Picabia exhibition held in the Grand Palais in 1976, as well as for the innovations he introduced into the field of museology in the 1980s. Jean Hubert Martin also played a key role in organizing the Magiciens de la Terre exhibition (1989) at the Centre...
Publisher: Five Continents Editions

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