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The Fine Arts list covers the range of art history, from antiquity to the present. Books within the list represent a range of methodologies, both cutting edge and traditional, and cover architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and art theory.

 

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Add to basket Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

Andrew Stewart

What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these questions and offers some answers to them.

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$90.00 (C)

 

Add to basket Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

Andrew Stewart

What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these questions and offers some answers to them.

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$28.99 (Z)

 

Add to basket Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture

The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum

Luciana Gallo

This book analyses the rich and remarkable collection of archaeological drawings, now housed in The British Museum, drawn in Greece by a team of architects and artists in the service of Lord Elgin during his ambassadorial expedition to the Levant (1799–1803).

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$150.00 (R)

 

Add to basket Art in Athens During the Peloponnesian War

Edited by Olga Palagia

This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produced.

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$90.00 (C)

 

Add to basket Family Fictions in Roman Art

Essays on the Representation of Powerful People

Natalie Boymel Kampen

In Family Fictions in Roman Art, Natalie Kampen reveals the profoundly de-naturalized ways in which family could be represented in the interests of political power during the Roman Empire.

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$85.00 (Z)

 

Family Fictions in Roman Art

Essays on the Representation of Powerful People

Natalie Boymel Kampen

In Family Fictions in Roman Art, Natalie Kampen reveals the profoundly de-naturalized ways in which family could be represented in the interests of political power during the Roman Empire.

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Add to basket Greek Art and the Orient

Ann C. Gunter

For over a century, scholars have recognized an "orientalizing period" in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or resident foreign artisans.

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$85.00 (C)

 

Add to basket Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth Century Holland

Portraiture and the Production of Community

Ann Jensen Adams

During the seventeenth century, Dutch portraits were actively commissioned by corporate groups and by individuals from a range of economic and social classes.

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$100.00 (R)

 

Add to basket Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100–700 BC

Susan Langdon

This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender, and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100–700 BC.

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$90.00 (C)
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The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property

Margaret M. Miles

This book examines the ancient origins of debate about art as cultural property. What happens to art in time of war? Who should own art, and what is its appropriate context?

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$90.00 (C)