Art of the Western WorldDenise Hooker Boxtree, 1989 - 464 pagina's Spanning the supreme artistic achievements of western civilization from classical antiquity to post-modernism, this book - tied to an 18 part Channel 4 series - is a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive account of western art. |
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