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"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is an engaged
In his letters to the early Christian communities, the apostle Paul left for Christians of all time an array of powerful images: from the pain of a thorn in the
In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state a