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Other than "Themes in American Painting: a reference work to common
styles and genres," does anyone know and/or recommend another title
that could help students locate various works by theme? The specific
request I have in mind, is for works depicting "hope and despair."
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TITLE: Encyclopedia of comparative iconography : themes depicted in
works of art / editor, Helene E. Roberts.
PUBLISHED: Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c1998.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
This work gives cross-references in the index under despair to the following:
abandonment
abduction/rape
death
expulstion
fortune
gaze
hanging
journey/flight
margins/outsiders
melancholy
mirror/reflection
order/chaos
penitence/repentance
plague/pestilence
sacrifice
sin/sinning
vices/deadly sins
virtur/virtues
widowhood
Under these entries there is an essay and a listing of selected works of art.
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