Selected Lectures of Rudolf Wittkower : The Impact of Non-European Civilization on the Art of the West de Wittkower, Rudolf

Brand: Cambridge University Press, 1989-08-25. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Hardbound. VG but ex-library with usual markings/Good - same. Black cloth with white illus. dj; 235 pp. with bw illus. from Wittkower's lectures at various universities.

Cambridge University Press. Used - Very Good. 1989. First Edition. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xxix & 235 pp. Illustrated. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Art History).

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Name on flyleaf. Minor wear. VG. Art History Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1989 orig. cloth 24x16cm, xxix,235 pp., Foreword by Margot Wittkower. Contents: Europe and the Near East - migrations and waves of penetration; Egypt and Europe; the obelisk - its role in architectural decoration and urban organization, its significance in the 17th and 18th centuries; hieroglyphics - the conceptual impact of Egypt from the 15th century onward, philological concerns in the 17th and 18th centuries; Piranesi's contribution to European Egyptomania; China and Europe - early connections,chinoiserie and the Anglo-Chinese garden; Europe, India and the Turks.