Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World’s Art - John Onians - Books - Yale University Press - 9780300097900 - October 17, 2006
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Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World’s Art

John Onians

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Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World’s Art

How do we do justice to art when we treat it as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? In this study, academics, curators, bibliographers and representatives of international organizations explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express.


224 pages, 40 illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 17, 2006
ISBN13 9780300097900
Publishers Yale University Press
Pages 268
Dimensions 246 × 181 × 22 mm   ·   722 g
Language English  
Editor Onians, John

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