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History of Art

Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings

"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...

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Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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History of Art

Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern

Cropper Elizabeth, Alpers Svetlana, Hill Boone Elizabeth, Bordes Philippe, Bryan Betsy M., Campbell C. Jean, Connors Joseph, Dempsey Charles, Feldman Marian H., Barry Flood Finbarr

ISBN: HB: 9780300121629, Yale University Press, April 2009
424 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 95 colour images, 167 black&white illus.

This spirited and challenging book presents dialogues between eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field. The essays consider world art of all periods, covering ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, preconquest Mexico and Peru, Islam, C...

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