Lost, Stolen or Shredded
(Sprache: Englisch)
The stories behind the disappearances of some of our most famous works of art - and some that never existed at all - now available in paperback.
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The stories behind the disappearances of some of our most famous works of art - and some that never existed at all - now available in paperback.
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Like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. Rick Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture - and addresses the questions such disappearances raise.Some of the items are stolen (the Mona Lisa), some destroyed (like Philip Larkin's diaries) and some were lost before they even existed, like the career of the brilliant art deco architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which floundered amid a lack of cash - but behind all of them lies an often surprising story which reveals a lot about what art means to us.
Gekoski explores the greater questions these tremendous losses raise - such as the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativity, and what motivated people to queue to see the empty space where the Mona Lisa once hung in the Louvre.
Autoren-Porträt von Rick Gekoski
Der Amerikaner Rick Gekoski lebt seit den sechziger Jahren in England, wo er in Oxford in Englischer Literatur promovierte und viele Jahre an der University of Warwick unterrichtete. Heute widmet er sich dem Handel mit seltenen Büchern und Manuskripten, arbeitet außerdem als Verleger, Kritiker und Autor und war Jurymitglied des Man Booker Prize 2005.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rick Gekoski
- 2014, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1846684927
- ISBN-13: 9781846684920
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2014
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Englisch
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