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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2009)
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Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced both traditional and modern masters. This volume catalogues 130 nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings that are now part of the Robert Lehman Collection at ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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What is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? Today, as in the past, artists need the funding, approval, and friendship of ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
pvp.35,40 €
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Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2007)
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This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2007)
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Robert Lehman's interest in picture frames set him apart from other collectors of his era. The collection he bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum includes nearly four hundred frames, most of them Italian and French, dating ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2007)
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In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2007)
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Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
pvp.92,27 €
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The National Gallery's collection of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings, although numbering fewer than sixty works, is exceptional in quality. At its core are major examples by the two greatest masters of the period, Peter Paul Rubens ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
pvp.74,50 €
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St. Joseph is mentioned only eight times in the New Testament Gospels. Prior to the late medieval period, Church doctrine rarely noticed him except in passing. But in 1555 this humble carpenter, earthly spouse of ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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The cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Beauvais, France, is most famous as a failure--its choir vaults came crashing down in 1284--and only secondarily for its soaring beauty. This lavishly illustrated and elegantly written book represents the ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early twentieth century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as the Large Glass). The work ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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Downtown is more than just a location, it's an attitude--and in the 1970s and '80s, that attitude forever changed the face of America. This book charts the intricate web of influences that shaped the generation ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
pvp.44,00 €
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Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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Kommos, an ancient site on the island of Crete, is known both for its important Greek sanctuary and for its earlier role as a major Minoan harbor town. This final book in the Princeton series ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by ...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews, Christians, ...