In this deeply interesting book...the puzzles of spatial handling, formal rendering and historical or hieratic narrative are as never before smoothly and comprehensively resolved. Whole provinces of pleasure will be revealed to the careful reader.
-- New Republic

The book has become something of a classic for students of the Ancient Near East and the Aegean. The main goal of setting the reader to thinking about problems of space and time as concepts behind the works is admirably achieved.
-- Journal of the American Oriental Society

[Arrest and Movement] deals with two questions that are basic in the grammar of ancient art, the way of rendering objects and the significance of the surrounding space...An appreciation of the works discussed is set in its proper connection, the meaning and purpose, the life of the time...One closes the book with gratitude to Mrs. Frankfort for her good sense and her ability to reinspire forgotten wonder.
-- Manchester Guardian