Art

Vintage Minis

Simon Schama, CBE author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Oct '19

£5.99

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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.

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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ISBN: 9781784875671

Dimensions: 178mm x 110mm x 8mm

Weight: 79g

112 pages