La Magie Du Manuscrit: Collection Pedro Corrêa Do Lago - Hardcover

Nelson, Christine; Museum, The Morgan Library &

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3836575205 ISBN 13: 9783836575201

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2019

Synopsis

Handwriting works magic: it transports us back to defining moments in history, creativity, and everyday life and connects us intimately with the people who marked the page. For nearly half a century, Brazilian author and publisher Pedro Corrêa do Lago has been assembling one of the most comprehensive autograph collections of our era, acquiring thousands of handwritten letters, manuscripts, and musical compositions as well as inscribed photographs, documents, and drawings.

From an 1153 parchment signed by four medieval popes to a 2006 thumbprint signature by physicist Stephen Hawking, the items illustrated here span nearly nine hundred years, and along the way bring us up close and personal with writers, artists, composers, political figures, performers, explorers, scientists, philosophers, and rebels whose actions and creations have made them legends.

Rather than focusing on a single era or subject, Corrêa do Lago made the ambitious decision to seek important autographs in eight broad areas of human endeavor--art, history, literature, science, music, philosophy, exploration, and entertainment. The 140 extraordinary selections gathered in this book--displayed for the first time in a major exhibition at New York's Morgan Library and Museum--include letters by Lucrezia Borgia, Vincent van Gogh, and Emily Dickinson, annotated sketches by Michelangelo, Jean Cocteau, and Charlie Chaplin, and manuscripts by Giacomo Puccini, Jorge Luis Borges, and Marcel Proust.

Handwriting is one of the most visceral means by which we leave tracks of our existence. At a time when so much of our communication has become utterly immaterial, this collection conveys the power of the pen to illuminate the energy, passion, vulnerability, and imagination of humankind across the ages.

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Review

"It is the culmination of a life dedicated to the search and capture of documents signed by historical figures."

"What did Gauguin say about van Gogh behind his back? This new book reveals the raw, handwritten notes of great artists."

"Corrêa do Lago shows us what it's like to hold a piece of handwritten history in your hands."

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 3836575205
• ISBN 13: 9783836575201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Lago Pedro Corra Do, Wiedemann Julius