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Roman Portraits in Context
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00No other monumental art form was so widely disseminated throughout the Roman Empire as the portrait statue, and its impact on city life was crucial. By combining a wide socio-historical perspective with a close reading of individual images, their setting, and their inscribed texts, this book suggests how to read the meaning of portraits, even the ones... more...
Pioneer Cemeteries
University of Nebraska Press 2008; US$ 36.95As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the Wild West, cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history,... more...
The Berkeley Plato
University of California Press 2009; US$ 60.00This book explores the provenance of the so-called Berkeley Herm of Plato, a sculptural portrait that Stephen G. Miller first encountered over thirty years ago in a university storage basement. The head, languishing since its arrival in 1902, had become detached from the body, or herm, and had been labeled a fake. In 2002, while preparing another book,... more...
Animals in Stone
BRILL 2008; US$ 242.00The art history of South Asian covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies... more...
Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos
BRILL 2011; US$ 241.00This book investigates Hellenistic popular religion through an interdisciplinary study of figurines of Egyptian deities from Delos. The results offer a new perspective on Hellenistic reinterpretations of Egyptian religion, as well as the relationship between ?popular? and ?official? cults. more...
Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs ? an original and greatly influential artistic tradition. But why exactly did the production of such an array of monumental images ever start? This volume explores how Syro-Hittite monumental art was used as a powerful... more...
The Carving of Mount Rushmore
Abbeville Publishing Group 2011; US$ 22.50The first book to tell the complete story of Rushmore. The Carving of Mount Rushmore tells the complete story of the largest and certainly the most spectacular sculpture in existence. More than 60 black-and-white photographs offer unique views of this gargantuan effort, and author Rex Alan Smith?a man born and raised within sight of Rushmore?recounts... more...
The Color of Stone
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 82.50In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculptureÑcolor. Considering three major worksÑHiram PowersÕs Greek Slave, William Wetmore StoryÕs Cleopatra, and Edmonia LewisÕs Death of CleopatraÑshe explores the intersection of race, sex, and class to... more...
Statues in Roman Society
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 74.99Statues were everywhere in the Roman world. They served as objects of cult, honours to emperors and noblemen, and memorials to the dead. Combining close attention to individual Roman texts and images with an unprecedented broad perspective on this remarkable phenomenon, Statues in Roman Society explains the impact which all kinds of statuary had on... more...
Alabaster Images of Medieval England
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 165.00The fullest catalogue available on English medieval alabasters - 2,400 entries, with historical and art historical contextual material. more...









