MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART : Masterpieces of the New World Before Columbus : ONE-VOLUME EDITION

Pal Kelemen

Verlag: Macmillan, New York, NY, 1956

Beschreibung

Text/Bright.Clean, AS NEW. Silver embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Maps to front & rear endpapers w/faint creasing to rear EP. Tiny PO stamp to lower text edge. First published 1943 in 2 volumes. This is the 1956 first printing of the One-Volume Edition, combining Vol I of text (414 pgs) & Vol II of illustrations (306 archival plates), followed by indices. Admirable survey of Pre-Columbian art of the Americas, roughly contemporaneous to European Medieval art. Author, Hungarian-American art historian Pal Kelemen (1894 - 1993) is a scholar of Euopean art as well. Vol I in 12 chapters: I, Art-History & Medieval American Art; II, Historical Approach; III, Architecture; IV, Sculpture; V, Pottery; VI, Weaving; VII, Metal-Work; VIII, Jade & Other Semiprecious Stones; IX, Murals & Manuscripts; X, Miscellaneous Applied Arts; XI, Facets of Daily Life; and XII, Evolution or Influence. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 019609

Bibliografische Details

Titel: MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART : Masterpieces of the ...

Verlag: Macmillan, New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1956

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: One-Volume Edition, First Thus.

Art des Buches: One-Volume Edition