Civilizations. Images of people and gods in art from the ancient world to the present day

The idea of ​​"civilization" has always been discussed. These discussions are based on a big question about how our ancestors - from antiquity to the present day depicted themselves and others, both people and deities. The outstanding historian Mary Bird explores how art was formed and created by people who created it. How did we look at these images? Why were they sometimes so controversial?
In the first part, she explores how the human figure was depicted in one of the earliest works of art in the world - from giant stone heads carved by the Olmks of Central America, to the statues and clay products of ancient Greeks to the terracotta army of the first emperor of China. She explains how one specific version of the representation of the human body, which goes back to the ancient world, still affects (and sometimes distort) how people in the West see their own culture and culture of others. Throughout this story, she is interested not only in artists who made images, but also by those who used them, looked and interpreted. In other words: what do we look like?
In the second part, Mary Bird addresses the relationship between art and religion. For centuries, religion has inspired art: from the Hindu temple in Angkor-Vat to the Christian mosaic of Ravenna and the exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques