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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ART WRITING is the first book to bring together the very best writing on art, from the early Renaissance to the present day. Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is famously difficult, yet over the centuries manywriters have managed to put the inexpressible into words. This serious yet witty collection values vivid prose and readability over dry analysis. It features a a huge range of writers, from Vasari to Robert Hughes, Henry James to Francis Bacon, Sigmund Freud to Patrick Heron.
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Karen Wright is the editor of Modern Painters magazine. She has an MA from Cambridge in the history of art, and she is a regular contributor to The Times and the Sunday Telegraph. She lives in Cambridge.
Martin Gayford has an MA in art from the University of London. He is a prolific freelance journalist and contributes regularly to the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. He lives in Cambridge.
Bringing together the very best writing in art, from the early Renaissance to the present day, this collection features work from a large range of writers, including Robert Hughs, Henry James and Sigmund Freud.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 014025451X
- ISBN 13 9780140254518
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages640
- EditorWright Karen, Gayford Martin
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