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A Short Book About Painting

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

A Short Book About Painting

By Andrew Marr

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About the book

In A Short Book About Painting, writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr tackles the subjects of inspiration, creativity, politics, beauty and form. How does the artist make good work? What constitutes "good"? How important is technique - and the imagination? Following a serious stroke in 2013 that left him partially paralysed, Marr struggled with the physical rigours of painting using oils. This led to his wrestling with some of the very fundamental questions about painting as an art form in itself -...Show more

Paintings and painting

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ISBN

9781849499934

Publisher

Quadrille Publishing Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

A Short Book About Painting

Format

Hardcover

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