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Art: Vintage Minis

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By (author): CBE Simon Schama Simon Schama CBE

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 art through the prism of the troubling life and works of Italian master painter, and murderer, Caravaggio.

Selected from The Power of Art

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

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Religion by Karen Armstrong
Science by Ian McEwan

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Product Details
  • Weight: 79g
  • Dimensions: 110 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Oct 2019
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784875671

About CBESimon SchamaSimon 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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