Author: LUCIE-SMITH, EDWARD
Title: The Faber book of art anecdotes
Description: London : Faber and Faber 1992. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxxi. 485 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Review copy with the publisher's ephemeral loosely inserted. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 471-475. Summary; This collection of stories of widely varying character containing stories. commentary and reportage about artists and their art from classical times to the 20th century. Most of them are revealing. informative. scandalous. amusing or in some way significant. The book concentrates mainly on the period from the 15th to the 19th century and is entirely concerned with European art. apart from an appendix about Chinese art. The arrangement is chronological and by artists. so that individual anecdotes can be seen in relation to their more general background. Subjects; Art - Anecdotes. Artists - Anecdotes. facetiae. etc. Art - Artists' writings upon. History of art / art & design styles. Collections & anthologies of various literary forms. Europe ; China. Art / Individual Artists / General. Weight in Kg appr.:

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