Schama, Simon, CBE

Broschiertes Buch

The Power of Art

Beschreibung

'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art.

Autor

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 forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 191mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1350g
• ISBN-13: 9781847921185
• ISBN-10: 1847921183
• Artikelnr.: 26840341