In The Picture: The Year Through Art - Hardcover

Graham-Dixon, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713996757 ISBN 13: 9780713996753

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2003

Synopsis

Andrew Graham-Dixon's weekly column "In the Picture" in the Sunday Telegraph is the most regularly and widely read piece of writing about art in Britain. This book takes fifty-two of the best of these columns, arranged through the seasons, festivals, and anniversaries of the calendar, to provide a delightful unfolding pictorial commentary on the year. The perfect Christmas gift for every art-lover, and anyone who admires first-rate writing about it.

About this title

Synopsis:

Andrew Graham-Dixon's weekly column "In the Picture" in the "Sunday Telegraph" is one of the most regularly and widely read pieces of art criticism in Britain. This book takes 52 of the best of these articles, arranged through the seasons, festivals and anniversaries of the calendar, the provide a pictorial commentary on the year. Some of the pictures are well known: "Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase" by Vincent Van Gogh, "Flag" by Jasper Johns; Graham-Dixon helps us to see them freshly. But many are not: "Fish and Sandwich" by Patrick Caulfield, "The Beach at Trouville - The Empress Eugenie" by Eugene Boudin and "Atom Piece" by Henry Moore. The essays provided offer a short introduction to each.

About the Author:

Andrew Graham-Dixon has twice won the Hawthornden Prize for writing about art and has made two six-part BBC television series, A HISTORY OF BRITISH ART and RENAISSANCE. He is now at work on a major new biography of Caravaggio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0713996757
• ISBN 13: 9780713996753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224