The Art of Walking
A History in 100 Images
$47.99
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
7 August 2023
Summary
A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking
What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of walking images from cave art to contemporary performance, William Chapman Sharpe reveals that a depicted walk is always more than a matter of simple steps. Whether sculpted in stone, painted on a wall, or captured on film, each detail of gait and dress, each stride and gesture has a story to tell, for every aspect of walking is shape…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300266849 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300266847 |
| Author: | William Chapman Sharpe |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Readers embark on a promenade – arranged chronologically, it’s a walk, rather than a waltz, through time. It is perfectly suited to flicking – literary flâneurism, if you will.” —Grace McCloud, World of Interiors
“Deftly organized and superbly illustrated, The Art of Walking communicates its ideas and enthusiasms with infectious passion and in elegant prose.”—Matthew Beaumont, author of The Walker: On Finding and Losing Oneself in the Modern City
“Daring, erudite, and thoughtful, The Art of Walking is an important book for anyone who loves not only to walk but to think about the role that walking plays across wildly different times and places in history.”—Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City
William Chapman Sharpe
William Chapman Sharpe is professor of English at Barnard College.
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