biography
pronunciation:
[shapeeroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–96)
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| biography:
| Art historian, born in Shavly, Russia. His family emigrated to the USA in 1907, and he studied at Columbia University (1924 BA; 1926 MA; 1929 PhD), where he taught for many years from 1928. He also held concurrent positions as a lecturer at other institutions in America and abroad. Specializing in early mediaeval and modern art, he published several theoretical texts on the symbolic content of art. |
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