Neil MacGregor, Author, Erika Langmuir, With Yale University Press $37 (240p) ISBN 978-0-300-08478-8
This is no run-of-the-mill coffee-table book; art historian and critic MacGregor not only offers a rich feast for the eyes through lavish illustrations, but also shows how art reflects the church's development over the last two millennia. MacGregor...
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Neil MacGregor. Knopf, $40 (656p) ISBN 978-1-101-87566-7
As with A History of the World in 100 Objects, MacGregor, director of the British Museum, here constructs a materialist history, spinning a collection of historical vignettes from objects both ordinary and extraordinary. MacGregor’s survey of German
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Neil MacGregor. Knopf, $40 (512p) ISBN 978-0-525-52146-4
MacGregor (A History of the World in 100 Objects), former director of the British Museum, assembles art objects to understand belief through the ages in a book that reads like a guided tour of the museum. MacGregor organizes the tour into six themes:
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