Research Catalog

Title

Vanished civilizations : from the ancients to Easter Island / Jean Paul Barbier ; preface by Jean-François Revel.

Author

Barbier, Jean Paul.

Publication

New York, NY : Assouline, c2001.

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Details

Description

431 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 21 cm.

Summary

For the first time in a single volume, Jean Paul Barbier, a world-renowned historian, presents numerous "vanished civilizations" in a synthesis which plunges us deep into past worlds. Through beautiful and lavish photographs, Vanished Civilizations: From the Ancients to Easter Island invites you to discover such mysteries as the world of the Etruscans; the art of the Celts; the Olmec; and the dawn of Mexican art; the grandeur and decadence of the Maya; and the mystical North American Indians.

Uniform Title

Civilisations disparues. English

Alternative Title

Civilisations disparues.

Subject

• Civilization, Ancient
• Art, Ancient
• History, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-429).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- The childhood of humanity -- The art of the Cyclades -- The Greek miracle, from the origins to the Archaic period -- Greece, from Pericles to Alexander -- In Italy before the Romans, the Etruscans -- The Iberians -- The art of the Celts -- Republican and Imperial Rome -- Our ancestors the Barbarians -- Immortal Egypt -- The Achaemenid Empire of Persia -- The Olmecs, the dawn of Mexican art -- The Maya, grandeur and decadence -- The Aztecs, children of the sun -- Splendors of pre-Hispanic Peru -- Ishi, the Californian Indian -- The North American Indians -- The mysteries of Nias Island -- Easter Island, beyond the mystery.

ISBN

2843232465

OCLC

• 46432418
• SCSB-10121489

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library