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The canonical tradition in ancient Egyptian art / Whitney Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge new art history and criticismPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989Description: xx, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521365902
  • 9780521365901
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.32 19
LOC classification:
  • N5350 .D34 1989
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. The canonical representation of figures and groups -- 3. Variability, convention, and laws -- 4. The order of iconography -- 5. Academic production -- 6. The emergence of canonical conventions -- 7. The explanation of invariance: toward a history of the authority of the canonical image.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 709.32 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A060439B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The canonical representation of figures and groups -- 3. Variability, convention, and laws -- 4. The order of iconography -- 5. Academic production -- 6. The emergence of canonical conventions -- 7. The explanation of invariance: toward a history of the authority of the canonical image.

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