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Softcover book (282 pages) written by Wendy A. Cooper. This book was published by Abbeville Press and the Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition of Classical Taste in America organized by the Baltimore Museum. This is a first edition softcover book published in 1993. This book forms the catalog/explication for an exhibition in 1993-94 in Baltimore, Charlotte, and Houston. An introduction by Richard L. Bushman .. . {contends that} Americans were 'mesmerized by the classical world.' . . .{The book offers} five essays with objects as examples, in which Cooper . . .{argues that although} Americans borrowed from classical Antiquity, and occasionally from Egypt, contemporary France, and England, they always made 'American' interpretations." (Choice) Bibliography. Index. Buyer to pay shipping and handling of $5.50 in Continental USA. |
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