Selected Studies Volume II : The Decorative Arts of Europe & the Islamic East
Multilingual
by
Otto Kurz
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0907132073
ISBN-13
9780907132073
Edition
Multilingual
Publisher
Pindar Press
Imprint
Pindar Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 1982
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
715 grams
Product Classification:
History of art / art & design styles
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Volume II of Professor Kurz's collected essays comprises 30 articles, showcasing his wide-ranging interests in art from Classical, Byzantine and Islamic to Renaissance, Baroque, and art restoration. These volumes encompass all of his significant works, providing fresh insights and entertainment. Includes a preface by Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich.
This second volume of Professor Kurz''s studies completes the comprehensive selection in Vol. I with a further thirty articles, published over forty years, and showing the extraordinary breadth of the author''s interests. It begins with eight studies on Classical, Byzantine and Islamie art, continues to the Renaissanee and Baroque in Italy and Northern Europe, and ends with an entertaining section on the restoration, misattribution and faking of works of art. In this and Volume I, all of Professor Kurz''s major studies are now available. Whether they throw fresh light on an old problem, or bring to attention an unnoticed work, they remain stimulating, and always highly intertaining. A sixteen-page memoir of Otto Kurz by Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich is included here as a preface to this second volume.
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