A beautifully illustrated survey of the relationship between the development of books, the artist and Western pictorial art from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
A beautifully illustrated survey of the relationship between the development of books, the artist and Western pictorial art from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
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.'
Inhaltsangabe
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'
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'
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