The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the Museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitors from around the world. This splendid book takes readers on a trip through art history-and through the liberal arts, which serve as the college's grounding philosophy-using key objects from Bowdoin's diverse collection. With insightful essays that illuminate art in the context ...
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The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the Museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitors from around the world. This splendid book takes readers on a trip through art history-and through the liberal arts, which serve as the college's grounding philosophy-using key objects from Bowdoin's diverse collection. With insightful essays that illuminate art in the context of current, interdisciplinary liberal arts questions, this volume is an art lover's treasure that will spark readers' curiosity and help nurture their intellectual lives.
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Very Good. Very Good Condition-May show some limited signs of wear and may have a remainder mark. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.
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New. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24, 000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the Museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitors from around the world. This splendid book takes readers on a trip through art history-and through the liberal arts, which serve as the college's grounding philosophy-using key objects from Bowdoin's diverse collection. With insightful essays that illuminate art in the context of current, interdisciplinary liberal arts questions, this volume is an art lover's treasure that will spark readers' curiosity and help nurture their intellectual lives.
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Very Good. 2019. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Profusely illus. Very little shelf-wear. Small gash to fore-edge. Else clean copy with tight binding. Very Good. (Subject: Art).
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Fine. Picture shown is for illustration purposes only, Please see below for further detailsCONDITION: LIKE NEWdent to corner/edges of boards, shipped from the UK. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.
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New in New jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. 1st Printing. This is a New and Unread copy and it is still in the unopened publisher's shrink wrap as issued.
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VG. Illustrated dj; olive boards with gilt lettering on spine. 224 pages: color illustrations. "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts, organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, June 29/October 27, 2019"--Colophon. / Includes bibliographical references. "The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24, 000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitors from around the world. This splendid book takes readers on a trip through art history--and through the liberal arts, which serve as the college's grounding philosophy--using key objects from Bowdoin's diverse collection. With insightful essays that illuminate art in the context of current, interdisciplinary liberal arts questions, this volume is an art lover's treasure that will spark readers' curiosity and help nurture their intellectual lives"--Contents: Art purposes / by Joachim Homann--On the origins and development of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art / by Anne Collins Goodyear--Ancient art--Asian art--European art--Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas--American art--Modern art--Contemporary art--Afterword: an epistle for the future / Frank H. Goodyear III.
