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4to. xii+108pp. B/w illustrations. Original slightly marked wrappers, a very good copy. . First edition,scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Folio in dark green multi-color illus jacket; 228 pages: illustrations (some color); 29 cm; bibliographical references. Class Descriptors:. "Experts consider how arts and artists have worked within the pastoral tradition since ancient times." ? Publisher. Series: Studies in the history of art / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 36; Symposium papers, 20. Contents: Introduction: pastorals and pastoralisms / John Dixon Hunt -- Exploring the grove: pastoral space on Roman walls / Bettina Bergmann -- The Roman villa and the pastoral ideal / Alfred Frazer -- Polyphemus in a landscape: traditions of pastoral courtship / Eleanor Winsor Leach -- The Madrigalian and the formulaic in Andrea Gabrieli's pastoral madrigals / Howard M. Brown -- Pastoral elasticity on the Italian stage and page / Louise George Clubb -- Pastoral parenting: L'astr?e / Louise K. Horowitz -- From Arcady to the barnyard / W.R. Rearick -- Pastoral Topoi: on the construction of meaning in landscape / David Rosand -- Pastoral landscape and antiquity: Hadrian's villa / John Pinto -- Notes on some instances of irony in modern pastoral / Jeremy Strick -- Does pastoralism have a future? / Leo Marx. / Pastoral art -- Congresses. Arts -- Congresses. Landscapes in art -- Congresses. Pastorales (Art) -- Congr?s. Paysages dans l'art -- Congr?s. Arts -- Congr?s. Landscapes in art. Arts. Pastoral art. Pastorale schilderkunst. Landschapschilderkunst. Pintura (historia) // **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Does not fint in a USPS global priority flat rate envelope. Please inquire.**. Very fine in very fine jacket; as new in fine dust-jacket.

Condition: Good. [Course catalogue]. 8vo. [72 pp]. Soft, stapled glossy white wraps with black lettering. Very good with marginal toning along spine. Black and white photographic plates. Includes catalog of Fall Semester 1992 courses at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T as well as list and biographies of Fellows at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, including Beth Galston, Joe Davis, Dale Eldred, Tom Van Sant, Nishan Bichajian, Vin Grabill, Gant, Rus; Betsy Connors, Harriet Casdin-Silver, Paul Earls et al. Catalog created for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA on occasion of Fall 1992 Semester holdings. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.