MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART : Masterpieces of the New World Before Columbus : ONE-VOLUME EDITION
by Pal Kelemen
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good/No Jacket
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New York, NY: Macmillan, 1956. One-Volume Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 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.
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- Title
- MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART : Masterpieces of the New World Before Columbus : ONE-VOLUME EDITION
- Author
- Pal Kelemen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- One-Volume Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Art History/Pre-Columbian Americas/Medieval/Anthropology/Achaeology
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