The Language of Forms: Lectures on Insular Manuscript Art by Schapiro, Meyer - 2005

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 2005. Softcover. VG (light scuffing to wraps and corners lightly bumped. Pages are otherwise crisp and clean). Black wraps, color illustrated, white and peach letterintg; vii, 199 pp; illustrated throughout in color and bw. Foreword by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. ; introduction by Jane E. Rosenthal. Contents include: Frame, field, and figure -- The carpet page and the giant initial -- Image and ornament -- Models and their transformation : single figures and motifs -- Models and their transformation : composition and field and frame -- The religious and secular grounds of insular art.