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Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context
ISBN: HB: 9781785701955, Casemate, Oxbow Books, March 2016
576 pp., 28x21.6 cm
The sculpture of the Early Bronze Age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from una...
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£40,00
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Early Mainland Southeast Asia From First Humans to Angkor
ISBN: PB: 9786167339443, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2014
456 pp., 23.1x16.9 cm, illus.
This synthesis of the latest archaeological discoveries in Southeast Asia begins with the early hunter gatherers and concludes with the early states, with particular reference to Angkor. There has been a proliferation of new ideas and interpretations...
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£19,95
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Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856
ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...
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£39,00
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£47,50
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Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.
In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...
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£37,00
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£65,00
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Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC - AD 1000
ISBN: PB: 9780300170863, Yale University Press, March 2011
480 pp., 24.6x18.6 cm, 120 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. By the fift...
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£19,99
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Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan
ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.
Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...
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£34,00
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Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350-1527
ISBN: HB: 9780300154214, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 220 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displa...
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£55,00
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