Lapidari 1: Texts

In June and July 2014, philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and photographer Marco Mazzi undertook the Albanian Lapidar Survey, a project to map, document, and photograph the large majority of Albanian lapidars, a particular type of monument, mainly produced in the period that the communist Labor...

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Other Authors: Gashi, Jonida (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2015
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