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The Power of Art

Hardcover • 2006 • English • 1. edition

The Power of Art

By Simon Schama

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About the book

"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality. . . ." With the sam...Show more

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ISBN

9780061176104

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published year

2006

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Power of Art

Format

Hardcover

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