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‘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

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‘Great art has dreadful manners……The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe,... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 03/10/2019
    ISBN13: 9781784875671, 978-1784875671
    ISBN10: 1784875678

    Number of Pages: 112

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

    Description

    ‘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.

    A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

    Also in the Vintage Minis 'Great Ideas' series:
    Religion by Karen Armstrong
    Science by Ian McEwan

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