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Carved for a Roman city prefect who was a newly baptized Christian at his death, the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is not only a magnificent example of "the fine style" of mid-fourth-century sculpture but also a treasury of early Christian iconography clearly indicating the Christianization of Rome--and the Romanization of Christianity. Whereas most

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The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. This book aims to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. It emphasizes on the poems inscribed by the Byzantines upon their icons.

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This study looks at the Independent Group of artists, designers and writers who, in the early 1950s, aimed to raise the status of popular objects and icons within modern visual culture. The development of the Group is mapped against the changing nature of modernism during the Cold War era.

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This book celebrates the 40+ year history of the Textile Study Group of New York (1977-2019). Contributions include a brief history of the organization, a portfolio of art from 168 TSGNY members, and an essay by Joanne Mattera, which surveys the increased stature of fiber in today's art world. If you're interested in the broad scope of fiber art today, this book is for you.

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This is a 50-year retrospective of some of the work of scrimshander Marvin M. Cohen.

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This coloring book is a dedication to the type and beauty of the Lippitt Morgan Horse. This magnificent morgan type has the highest percentage of Justin Morgan blood. There are only approximately 1,500 Lippitts presently in the world. They are considered an endangered species. The Lippitt Morgan is known for their Morgan Type, versatility, intelligence, stamina, and personality

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Drawing on research and models from anthropology, material culture and art history, this study explores topics as diverse as Inka stonework, cork platforms for shoes and the Christian Eucharist. -- .

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Health and Illness in American Gilded-Age Art addresses the place of organic disease--cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis--in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists, demonstrating how works of art were marked by disease and functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late nineteenth century.

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A critical survey of Leonora Carringtons legacies in contemporary creative practice. The medium of Leonora Carrington explores why creative people, especially women, are preoccupied with making work in her legacy today.

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One of the initiators of surrealism, Giorgio de Chirico greatly influenced later painters, particularly during his "metaphysical" period. De Chirico's painting was complemented by his writing. This edition comprises both volumes of the "Memoirs", along with "The Technique of Painting".

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One of the most important books on the modernist movement in architecture, written by a founder of the Bauhaus school.

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Examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science. -- .

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"The Off-Modern charts a fresh path beyond the categories of modernism and postmodernism, center and periphery, artistic theory and practice"--

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A full-color gallery of the major art works found in Causey's Remnants of Eden: Evolution, Deep-Time, & the Antediluvian World.

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Taking the form of a protest against the official story of modernism, this text tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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