ENCYCLOPAEDIA
OF ART & HISTORY
We
need to study not only art, but the evolution of languages, and the evolution
of History, to understand the role of Art in Human History - a complex social
organism, in which art acts as the collective mind of our species, evolving
our visual/spatial and verbal/temporal understanding of the Universe.
What
is the nature of those visual and verbal languages used by human art? How
history and the languages of power of human societies (money, weapons, social
religions) have influenced artistic styles? What is the nature of artists,
cells of that social mind, able to evolve our languages of perception? Why
art is cyclical and artistic styles repeat in all civilizations? How those
cycles of art structure, parallel to the phases of life in each of those human
cultures? All those questions have to be answered to have a thoroughly comprehension
of the "sacred" role of verbal and visual art in human history.
Since we cannot explain the different styles of art, and the forms and languages
art uses to perceive the Universe, without having a complete vision of History
and the social organisms we have called civilizations.
To
that aim the encylopaedia of art studies the organisms of history, and the
ages of human history. How the evolution of languages has determined the formal
ages of art, and the media we have used. And finally how artistic styles and
artists have adapted to those ages of history, and evolving languages, to
create in different media, the art and culture of mankind.
The
entire encyclopedia is therefore an encyclopedia of History, art and human
languages, divided in 6 books.
The
first book studies History as a social organism in which art acts as the collective
mind of our species. It studies the 3 great ages of History, and its 3 languages
of power: money, weapons and verbal thought (laws, religions). And how art
has adapted its styles to the military, economical and political/religious
power, creating the different cultures of those civilizations. It studies
the civilizations created with those languages of power, showing how social
castes, art, languages of perception and human history are tightly related
to each other.
The
second book studies the evolution of languages and how that evolution has
determined the nature of art and perception, our ideologies, and visual and
verbal works of art, throughout history. Man has evolved bio-logically, through
a series of mental stages, from the age of visual thought, similar to the
animal perception of the Universe (Paleolithic), to the age of music and simple
verbal languages, (Neolithic), to the age of written thought, the age of wor(l)ds,
and human art, to arrive finally to the modern age of digital languages and
technological art.
Finally
the third book concentrates in the cycles of art, as human civilizations have
lived and died, showing their youth, maturity and age of extinction in the
styles and thoughts of its great artists, that acted as the subconscious mind
of those civilizations. We consider for each fundamental cycle of history,
the great genius and schools of art, their work, and influence on human societies:
Bio-history (Social Organisms)
250
pp. 2 Euros
Art:
The evolution of languages
300
pp. 5 Euros
Art: the mind of civilizations
467
pp. 2 Euros
