
By Marian H. Feldman
ISBN-10: 022610561X
ISBN-13: 9780226105611
Marian H. Feldman brings her twin education as an paintings historian and an archaeologist to endure at the networks that have been necessary to the move and alternate of luxurious goods—particularly ivories and steel works—and how they have been additionally significant to group formation. The curiosity in, and relationships to, those artwork items, Feldman exhibits, resulted in wide-ranging interactions and differences either inside and among groups. finally, she argues, the creation and move of luxurious items within the interval calls for a rethinking of our very geo-cultural belief of the Levant, in addition to its impression past what have ordinarily been considered its borders.
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Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant by Marian H. Feldman
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