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Vintage Minis

By Simon Schama, CBE

Series: Vintage Minis

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Art by Simon Schama CBE is a profound exploration of how art intersects with history, culture, and human experience. Schama delves into various art pieces and artists through time, offering vivid narratives and a rich contextual backdrop. The book is an insightful journey into the transformative power and significance of art in society.
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This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by the intricate stories behind artistic masterpieces and their creators. Simon Schama, CBE, offers a richly illustrated and insightful narrative on the impact of art through history, making it a compelling read for arts and culture enthusiasts who enjoy a blend of visual beauty and historical context.

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Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.

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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Art by Simon Schama, CBE has been praised for its engaging style and aesthetic appeal. Reviewers describe it as both visually and intellectually stimulating, catering well to modern readers looking for concise yet profound insights.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784875671

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 112.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 83g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

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.