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Depicting History: Indonesian Modernism in Transition. Selected Masterpieces from the Indonesian National Gallery
by Amir Sidharta
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 9791787409
- ISBN 13
- 9789791787406
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About This Item
Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Cloth with a Cloth Slipcase. 259 pages. Hardcover, bound in black cloth covered boards, wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket, and cased in a black cloth covered board slipcase. Texts in English. Beautifully illustrated. Gift inscription in ink on the copyright page. There are no further internal markings, the binding is tight, the edges and corners on the boards are sharp, the jacket is bright and unblemished, with a minimal degree of shelfwear to the sturdy slipcase. An eye-opening collection of masterworks of modernist painting not nearly as widely known in the West as they deserve to be..
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"Selected masterpieces from the Indonesian National Gallery"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.
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- Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022672
- Title
- Depicting History: Indonesian Modernism in Transition. Selected Masterpieces from the Indonesian National Gallery
- Author
- Amir Sidharta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 9791787409
- ISBN 13
- 9789791787406
- Publisher
- Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art: Asian;
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