ART FORMS AND CIVIC LIFE IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE (Translated from Norwegian)

Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated cover/Fine. PO name blank-out to front cover verso. Intellectual history. Study of art and the Western Civilization translated from Norwegian treatise, Fra Principat til Dominat (1958). A classic analysis of the balance between government controls and the artists' vision of man during Late Roman times. Historian of ancient cultures, H.P. L'Orange, Sr. (1903 - 1983) demonstrates "how the disintegreation of society under the Principate and the establishment of a new order under the Dominate were accompanied by a parallel break-up and reorganization in the art world." Text in 2 parts: I, Structural Changes in Late Antiquity, and, II, The Great Crisis and Its Solution Under Diocletian.