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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contents | |
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| Use Notes | |
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| Starter Kit | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prehistory and Prehistoric Art in Europe | |
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| The Paleolithic Period | |
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| The Neolithic Period | |
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| The Bronze Age | |
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| The Iron Age | |
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| The Object Speaks: Prehistoric Woman and Man | |
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| Art of the Ancient Near East | |
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| The Fertile Crescent | |
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| Early Neolithic Cities | |
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| Sumer | |
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| Akkad | |
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| Lagash | |
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| Babylon and Mari | |
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| Assyria | |
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| Neo-Babylonia | |
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| Elam | |
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| Anatolia | |
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| Persia | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Code of Hammurabi | |
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| Art of Ancient Egypt | |
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| Neolithic And Predynastic Egypt | |
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| Early Dynastic Egypt | |
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| The Old Kingdom | |
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| The Middle Kingdom | |
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| The New Kingdom | |
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| The Continuing Influence of Egyptian Art | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Temples of Rameses II | |
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| Aegean Art | |
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| The Aegean World | |
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| The Cycladic Islands in the Bronze Age | |
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| Mainland Greece and the Mycenaean Civilization | |
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| The Object Speaks: The "Mask of Agamemnon" | |
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| Art of Ancient Greece | |
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| The Emergence of Greek Civilization | |
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| The Geometric Period | |
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| The Orientalizing Period | |
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| The Archaic Period | |
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| The Classical Period in Greek Art | |
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| The Transitional, or Early Classical, Period | |
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| The Fifth-Century Classical Period | |
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| Classical Art of the Fourth Century | |
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| The Hellenistic Period | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Parthenon | |
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| Etruscan Art and Roman Art | |
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| Etruscan Civilization | |
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| Roman History | |
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| The Republican and Augustan Periods | |
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| The Empire | |
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| The Roman City and Home | |
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| The Late Empire | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Unswept Floor | |
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| Early Christian, Jewish, and Dyzantine Art | |
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| Jews And Christians in the Roman Empire | |
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| Jewish and Early Christian Art | |
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| Imperial Christian Architecture and Art | |
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| Early Byzantine Art | |
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| Middle Byzantine Art | |
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| Late Byzantine Art | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Archangel Michael | |
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| Islamic Art | |
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| Islam And Early Islamic Society | |
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| Art During the Early Caliphates | |
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| Later Islamic Society and Art | |
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| Art of India before 1100 | |
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| The Indian Subcontinent | |
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| Indus Valley Civilization | |
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| The Vedic Period | |
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| The Maurya Period | |
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| The Period of the Shungas and Early An Dhras | |
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| The Kushan and Later Andhra Period | |
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| The Gupta Period | |
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| The Po St-Gupta Period | |
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| The Early Medieval Period | |
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| Chinese Art before 1280 | |
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| The Middle Kingdom | |
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| Neolithic Cultures | |
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| Bronze Age China | |
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| The Chinese Empire: Qin Dynasty | |
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| Han Dynasty | |
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| Six Dynasties | |
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| Sui and Tang Dynasties | |
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| Song Dynasty | |
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| Japanese Art before 1392 | |
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| Prehistoric Japan | |
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| Asuka Period | |
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| Nara Period | |
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| Heian Period | |
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| Kamakura Period | |
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| The Object Speaks: Monk Sewing | |
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| Art of the Americas before 1300 | |
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| The New World | |
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| Mesoamerica | |
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| Central America | |
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| South America: The Central Andes | |
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| North America | |
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| Art of Ancient Africa | |
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| The Lure of Ancient Africa | |
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| Saharan Rock Art | |
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| Sub-Saharan Civilizations | |
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| Other Urban Centers | |
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| Early Medieval Art in Europe | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| The British Isles and Scandinavia | |
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| Christian Spain | |
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| Langobard Italy | |
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| Carolingian Europe | |
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| Scandinavia: The Vikings | |
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| Ottonian Europe | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Doors of Bishop Bernward | |
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| Romanesque Art | |
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| Romanesque Culture | |
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| France and Northern Spain | |
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| The North Sea Kingdoms | |
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| The Holy Roman Empire | |
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| Ancient Rome and Romanesque Italy | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Bayeux Tapestry | |
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| Gothic Art | |
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| The Gothic Style | |
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| France | |
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| England | |
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| Spain | |
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| Germany and the Holy Roman Empire | |
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| Italy | |
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| The Object Speaks: Notre-Dame of Paris | |
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| Early Renaissance Art in Europe | |
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| The Renaissance and Humanism | |
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| Art of the French Ducal Courts | |
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| Art of Flanders | |
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| The Spread of the Flemish Style | |
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| The Graphic Arts | |
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| Art of Italy | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Foundling Hospital | |
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| Renaissance Art in Sixteenth-Century Europe | |
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| Europe in the Sixteenth Century | |
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| The Classical Phase of the Renaissance In Italy | |
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| The Renaissance and Reformation in Germany | |
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| Late Renaissance Art in Italy | |
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| Renaissance Art in France | |
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| Renaissance Art in Spain | |
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| Renaissance Painting in the Netherlands | |
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| Renaissance Art in England | |
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| The Object Speaks: Feast in the House of Levi | |
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| Baroque Art in Europe and North America | |
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| The Baroque Period | |
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| Italy | |
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| France | |
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| Habsburg Germany and Austria | |
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| Habsburg Spain | |
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| Spanish Colonies in the Americas | |
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| The Southern Netherlands/Flanders | |
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| The Northern Netherlands/United Dutch Republic | |
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| England | |
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| English Colonies in North America | |
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| The Object Speaks: Brueghel and Rubens's Sight | |
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| Art of India after 1100 | |
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| Late Medieval Period | |
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| Mughal Period | |
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| The Modern Period | |
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| Chinese Art after 1280 | |
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| The Mongol Invasions | |
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| Yuan Dynasty | |
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| Ming Dynasty | |
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| Qing Dynasty | |
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| The Modern Period | |
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| Japanese Art after 1392 | |
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| Muromachi Period | |
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| Momoyama Period | |
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| Edo Period | |
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| The Meiji and Modern Periods | |
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| Art of the Americas after 1300 | |
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| Indigenous American Art | |
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| Mexico and South America | |
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| North America | |
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| Other Contemporary Native American Artists | |
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| The Object Speaks: Hamatsa Mask | |
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| Art of Pacific Cultures | |
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| The Peopling of the Pacific | |
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| Australia | |
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| Melanesia | |
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| Micronesia | |
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| Polynesia | |
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| Recent Art in Oceania | |
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| Art of Africa in the Modern Era | |
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| Traditional and Contemporary Africa | |
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| Children and the Continuity Of Life | |
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| The Spirit World | |
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| Leadership | |
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| Death and Ancestors | |
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| Contemporary Art | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe and North America | |
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| The Enlightenment and Its Revolutions | |
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| The Rococo Style in Europe | |
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| Art in Italy | |
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| Revivals and Romanticism in Britain | |
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| Art in France | |
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| Art in North America | |
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| The Object Speaks: Georgian Silver | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States | |
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| Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Neoclassicism and Romanticism in France | |
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| Romanticism in Spain | |
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| Romantic Landscape Painting in Europe | |
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| Naturalistic, Romantic, and Neoclassical American Art | |
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| Revival Styles in Architecture Before | |
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| 1850 Early Photography in Europe | |
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| New Materials and Technology in Architecture at Midcentury | |
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| French Academic Art and Architecture | |
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| French Naturalism and Realism and their Spread | |
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| Late-Nineteenth-Century Art in Britain | |
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| Impressionism | |
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| Post Impressionism | |
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| Art in the United States | |
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| The Object Speaks: Raft of the "Medusa" | |
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| The Rise of Modernism in Europe and North America | |
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| Europe and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| Early Modernist Tendencies in Europe | |
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| Cubism in Europe | |
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| Early Modernist Tendencies in the United States | |
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| Early Modern Architecture | |
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| Modernism in Europe Between the Wars | |
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| Art and Architecture in the United States Between the Wars | |
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| Early Modern Art in Canada | |
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| The Object Speaks: Portrait of a German Officer | |
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| The International Avant-Garde since 1945 | |
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| The World Since | |
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| 1945 Postwar European Art | |
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| Abstract Expressionism | |
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| Alternatives to Abstract Expressionism | |
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| From Modernism to Postmodernism | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| The Object Speaks: The Dinner Party | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |