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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingThe Art history is conveniently arranged, and the illustrations are tasteful. He's not casting his definition of "Civilization" widely enough to suit me. I much prefer the twelve volume effort by Will ... Read full review
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingThis is a dreadful book from an excellent TV series. If one is producing an art book, one would be disappointed that the illustrations were all going to be black and white. When this was compounded by ... Read full review
Contents
Colour Illustrations facing page | 5 |
Purse lid in gold and enamel from the Sutton Hoo ship burial 12 | 9 |
The beginning of the Gospel of St Matthew from the Lindisfarne Gospels c 700 | 13 |
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| Title | Civilisation, a personal view |
| Author | Kenneth Clark |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1969 |
| ISBN | 0060108010, 9780060108014 |
| Length | 359 pages |
| Subjects | › Art Civilization History / Civilization |
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