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From Court to Caravan Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M. Solomon
ISBN: HB: 9780300096965, Yale University Press, November 2002
160 pp., 19.6x28 cm, 10 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.
During the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Tang (AD 618-907) dynasties, terra cotta sculptures were placed in elaborate tombs to protect and to serve the spirit of the deceased. These fascinating sculptures took the form of soldiers, courtiers, musicians, me...
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£25,00
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Flute
ISBN: PB: 9780300094985, Yale University Press, May 2002
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, 20 colour plates, 45 black&white illus.
The story of the flute in the musical life of Europe and North America from the 12th century to the 21st. It seeks to illustrate the relationship that has bound the instrument, its music, and performance technique together through eight centuries of...
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£42,00
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Farewell to an Idea Episodes from a History of Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780300089103, Yale University Press, March 2001
464 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 210 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernis...
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£35,00
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Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History
ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.
A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...
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£21,00
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Freedom and Karl Jaspers' Philosophy
ISBN: HB: 9780300026290, Yale University Press, July 1981
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.
As a founding father of Existentialism, Karl Jaspers has been seen as a twentieth-century successor to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard; as an exponent of reason, he has been seen as an heir of Kant. But studies tracing influences upon his thought or placin...
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£35,00
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