The Finger
A Handbook
$66.29
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2010
Summary
From the author of A Brief History of the Smile, a complete index of the digit.
In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from Buddhist statues in Kyoto to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, from cave art to Picasso’s Guernica, from Van Dyck’s and Rubens’s winning ways with gloves to the long-standing …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522857696 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522857698 |
| Author: | Angus Trumble |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 144mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Angus Trumble
Angus Trumble was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and is the youngest of four brothers. Formerly Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, and was Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Angus took up his appointment as Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in February 2014.
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