Jamie Camplin: Books Do Furnish a Painting

Cover: 9780500252253 | Books Do Furnish a Painting | Jamie Camplin (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden

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Beschreibung

The representation of books in art is explored across 150 thematically arranged notable paintings depicting them. Takes in over 600 years of painting, with a variety including Antonello da Messina's "Virgin Annunciate" and Winslow Homer's "The New Novel".

Über den Autor

Jamie Camplin graduated from Cambridge in 1968 with a Double First in History. He was Editorial Director, Thames & Hudson, 1979-2005, and Managing Director, 2005-13. He is the author of The Rise of the Plutocrats: Wealth and Power in Edwardian England (1978) and 1914 The King Must Die (2015). According to bestselling biographer Michael Holroyd, in The Times, he writes with 'skill and a wry romantic wit. I can see he is playing brilliantly.'

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: 1. How It All Began . 2. Who Invented 'the Artist'? . 3. Courtly Cultures and their Undercurrents . 4 . 'People are Stuffed with Reading Matter' . 5 . Books and the Painting of 'Modern Life' . 6 . Things Hold Together . PART TWO: Painting is 'Like a book ... which needs to give up its riches' . Gallery 1. The Word of God . Gallery 2. 'Book-Love' and the Home . Gallery 3. Perennial Pleasures in Multiple Locations . Gallery 4. 'All that Men Held Wise'

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780500252253
ISBN-10:	0500252254
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Camplin, Jamie Ranauro, Maria
Hersteller:	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Maße:	249 x 174 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Jamie Camplin (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.09.2018
Gewicht:	0,868 kg

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