Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art 0415069505, 9780415069502

Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account

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Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art
0415069505, 9780415069502

Papers from a Symposium - Indian Epigraphy : its Bearing on the History of Art ... held in December 1979 at the American

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Presents a history of architecture, discussing its influences, styles, and pioneers throughout the ages.

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Pliny's Naturalis Historia a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical,

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No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized

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A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philos

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From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extende

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Thijs Lijster considers the thought of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno on such key topics as the relationship between

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Pliny the Elder's Natural History is a vast encyclopaedia, surveying natural phenomena from cosmology to biology, m

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