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Author Davis, Whitney.

Title The canonical tradition in ancient Egyptian art / Whitney Davis.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  709.32 D265C    Check Shelf
Description xx, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series Cambridge new art history and criticism
Cambridge new art history and criticism.
Contents 1. Introduction --- 2. The canonical representation of figures and groups --- 3. Variability, convention, and laws --- 4. The order of iconography --- 5. Academic production --- 6. The emergence of canonical conventions --- 7. The explanation of invariance: toward a history of the authority of the canonical image.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 247-267.
Subject Art, Egyptian -- Themes, motives.
Art, Ancient -- Egypt -- Themes, motives.
Composition (Art) -- Egypt.
ISBN 0521365902
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