Art
Vintage Minis
$16.31
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2019
Summary
Great art has dreadful manners… The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.
In inimitable style, our greatest historian and master storyteller Simon Schama makes an irresistible case for the power of art and its necessary place in our lives, examining a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784875671 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784875678 |
| Author: | Simon Schama, CBE, Simon Schama |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 83g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 112mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
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About The Author
Simon Schama, CBE
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt’s Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews- Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492). His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics, and The Story of the Jews and is co-presenter of a new landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations.
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