["Arrest and Movement"] deals with two questions that are basic in
the grammar of ancient art, the way of rendering objects and the
significance of the surrounding space...An appreciation of the
works discussed is set in its proper connection, the meaning and
purpose, the life of the time...One closes the book with gratitude
to Mrs. Frankfort for her good sense and her ability to reinspire
forgotten wonder.
[ Arrest and Movement ] deals with two questions that are basic in
the grammar of ancient art, the way of rendering objects and the
significance of the surrounding space...An appreciation of the
works discussed is set in its proper connection, the meaning and
purpose, the life of the time...One closes the book with gratitude
to Mrs. Frankfort for her good sense and her ability to reinspire
forgotten wonder.
Ý"Arrest and Movement"¨ deals with two questions that are basic in
the grammar of ancient art, the way of rendering objects and the
significance of the surrounding space...An appreciation of the
works discussed is set in its proper connection, the meaning and
purpose, the life of the time...One closes the book with gratitude
to Mrs. Frankfort for her good sense and her ability to reinspire
forgotten wonder.
In this deeply interesting book...the puzzles of spatial handling,
formal rendering and historical or hieratic narrative are as never
before smoothly and comprehensively resolved. Whole provinces of
pleasure will be revealed to the careful reader.
The book has become something of a classic for students of the
Ancient Near East and the Aegean. The main goal of setting the
reader to thinking about problems of space and time as concepts
behind the works is admirably achieved.
["Arrest and Movement] deals with two questions that are basic in
the grammar of ancient art, the way of rendering objects and the
significance of the surrounding space...An appreciation of the
works discussed is set in its proper connection, the meaning and
purpose, the life of the time...One closes the book with gratitude
to Mrs. Frankfort for her good sense and her ability to reinspire
forgotten wonder.
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