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History of Art

Likeness and Presence A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Belting Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226042152, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
676 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its c...

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History of Art

Learning to Look A Handbook for the Visual Arts

Taylor Joshua C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791548, University of Chicago Press, June 1981
186 pp., 23.5x14.9 cm, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones

Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look". This handy guide...

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History of Art

Language of Images

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532158, University of Chicago Press, November 1980
314 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones

Introduction Howard Nemerov: On Poetry and Painting, With a Thought of Music Giulio Carlo Argan: Ideology and Iconology Joshua C. Taylor: Two Visual Excursions Elizabeth Abel: Redefining the Sister Arts: Baudelaire's Response to the Art of Delacroix...

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