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African textiles and decorative arts /
: Issued in connection with the exhibition to be held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 11, 1972-January 31, 1973, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 20-May 31, 1973, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, July 2-August 31, 1973, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct 3-December 2, 1973. : 239 pages : illustrations (pt. color) ; 29 cm. : Bibliography : pages 229-238. : 0870702270 (pbk.)
The tsars and the East : gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin.
: Issued in connection with an exhibition held May 9-September 13, 2009, organized by the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. : xi, 145 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9780934686136
From pasture to polis : art in the age of Homer /
: "Exhibition dates : Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, October 9-December 5, 1993 ; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, January 20-March 20, 1994 ; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 23-June 19, 1994" -- Title page verso. : xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index.
The revolt of unreason : Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Caso on the crisis of modernity /
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This book examines solutions to the crisis of modernity proposed by the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and the Mexican philosopher Antonio Caso. Acceptance of the objective claims of modern scientific rationality and the consequent rejection of the objective validity of artistic, moral, and religious claims generates the crisis of modernity. The problem is that of justifying artistic, moral, and religious claims. Miguel de Unamuno in his classic work, The Tragic Sense of Life , addresses the conflict between the belief in personal immortality and modern scientific rationality. Holding that there is no rational justification for the belief in immortality, Unamuno finds a solution in a "saving scepticism" to act "as if" he deserved immortality. In his book Existence as Economy, as Art, and Charity Caso attempts to create an aposteriori metaphysics based on the "current" results of science supplemented by the intuitions of art and morality. In doing so, Caso believes that he has enlarged the scope of the knowable to include objects of art, morality, and religion. Unamuno, by accepting the strict line of demarcation between faith and reason has no other recourse but to turn to decisionism. By turning to intuitionism, Caso believes that he has blurred the line of demarcation. Decisionism and intuitionism, therefore, are worthy of further exploration.
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1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789401208215 :
0929-8436 ; :
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Word becomes image : openwork vessels as a reflection of late antique transformation /
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This study presents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by the Roman period technique of openwork carving. As the first comprehensive assemblage of openwork vessels from Classical to late Antiquity, this work offers primary evidence documenting a key example of the fundamental shift from naturalism to abstraction in which inscriptions are transformed and word becomes image. A glass blower herself, Hallie Meredith poses questions about process, tactility and reception providing a clear picture of the original contexts of production and reception demonstrated by the Roman technique of openwork carving.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911300 (PDF ebook) :