Drapery
Subtitle: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: April 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781860645396
Subjects: Cultural studies; Human figures depicted in art; Social Science; Art & Art Instruction; Sociology; General; History - General; Subjects & Themes - General; Social Science / General
First sentence: At the close of his latest case, Nestor Burma, socialist, anti-Stalinist and private detective, decides to give his fee to the two victims of crime who are still alive at the end of the novel - the girlfriend of a dead blackmailer and the orphan child of a prostitute.