Jamie Camplin, Maria Ranauro

Books Do Furnish a Painting

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 174mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780500252253
• ISBN-10: 0500252254
• Artikelnr.: 52914060

Autorenporträt

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'