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Until now, frieze sculpture has been one of the least studied aspects of Romanesque art despite the examples to be found all over Europe. This book fills that gap, with a collection of essays from the 1988 symposium held at Lincoln, where an international group of scholars came together to discuss the frieze in its wider social and cultural context and the impact of such sculpture on the spectator. Papers include: Art History: problems of narrative and iconography (W.Sauerlander; W.Cahn; C.Verzar); regional groups and filiations (D.Kahn; M.Bayle; L.Kalinowski; E.Vergnolle); Conservation: pri...
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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (California Studies in the History of Art)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: University of California Press : April 1995

Seller ID: 181022

ISBN-13: 9780520202535

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Moderate cover wear includes corner crease and light rubbing; binding is firm, text shows a few marks.
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Painting in Islam

By: ARNOLD, THOMAS W.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc. : January 1965

Seller ID: 20110129184111

ISBN-13: 9780486213101

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Good to VG, covers scuffed & shelf rubbed, text crisp, solid & bright.
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Origins of Impressionism, a Special Issue of Connaissance Des Arts

By: Art, The Metropolitan Museum of

Price: $12.50

Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seller ID: 221045

ISBN: B00122ASX4

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Greek Art

By: BOARDMAN, JOHN

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Fredrick A. Praeger, Inc. : December 1964

Seller ID: 20071205129372

ISBN: 991124073

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Good

good/--. very minor shelf wear. 8vo
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Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period (World of Art)

By: Boardman, John

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : June 1985

Seller ID: 119476

ISBN-13: 9780500201633

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear, solid binding, unmarked text. Cover image varies from that shown.
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Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period, A Handbook

By: Boardman, John

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press : August 1985

Seller ID: 146185

ISBN-13: 9780195200478

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very little cover wear, firm binding, pristine text.
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Mainstreams of Modern Art

By: CANADAY, JOHN

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster : December 1959

Seller ID: 20071206129483

ISBN: 991124504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

good/--. green cloth over boards, no discernable publishing date in book. corners lightly bumped, spine rubbed. 4to, 576 pgs.
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How to Recognize Baroque Art

By: EDITORS, RIZZOLI

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) : 1979-12-20

Seller ID: 20071206129458

ISBN-13: 9780140052329

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good. Covers rubbed; a nice lightly read copy, color illustrations and diagrams.
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The Art of the Roman Empire: 100-450 AD (Oxford History of Art)

By: Elsner, Ja?

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : July 2018

Seller ID: 188367

ISBN-13: 9780198768630

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas' Elsner's ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, vi...
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