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Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
by Fried, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520037588
- ISBN 13
- 9780520037588
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
University of California Press. Used - Good. 1980. First Edition. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Quarto. xvii & 249 pp. Some shelf wear, noticeable creasing, and significant chipping & tearing to dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Penciled notations to rear flyleaf. Margin notes to text. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Art History).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C63477
- Title
- Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
- Author
- Fried, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0520037588
- ISBN 13
- 9780520037588
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- This edition first published
- 1980
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- Chipping
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