Hardcover
1998 · Princeton, New Jersey
by Porterfield, Todd
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; outer spine of dj is slightly faded; otherwise quite crisp and clean.). Red cloth, gilt letters on spine, color pictorial dust jacket in mylar cover, viii, 243 pp. 82 bw and color plates. Explores "the forces of art and politics in France's military conquest of the Near East. ... Reveals the interlocking strategies -- the historical, scientific, moralist, and gendered, judgements -- that imperial art conveyed in a strikingly rich variety of media." (dj) Highly illustrated, as you may imagine.
(Inventory #: 33600)