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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-23 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotio
Language: en
Pages: 285
Pages: 285
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-18 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it
Language: en
Pages: 217
Pages: 217
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book reviews the competing claims that works of art belong either to a particular people and place, or to humankind.
Language: en
Pages: 397
Pages: 397
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-24 - Publisher: HMH
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