[Nares, James] Cox, Beatrice (editor)

Exploring the Arts. [James Nares’ personal copy – received as “Robb Art Prize – Senior Section – Lent, 1965”].

London, Longacre Press, 1961. 21 cm x 26.5 cm. 191 pages with numerous monochrome illustrations throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to endpapers and hint of browning to leaf edges but interior otherwise bright and clean. Front endpapers carry inked inscription ‘Robb Art Prize Senior Section, James Nares, Lent 1965.’

Includes, for example, the following: What They Used to Draw With / Ballet for Beginners / Ballet Stetchbook / Looking at the Conductor / Making A Cartoon Film / People and Houses / What the Painter Sees / It’s Opera / After the Bible / Theatre through the Ages / The Second Vermeer / Playing Hamlet After School / Let There Be Music / Petrushka / Take Another Look … Jan Van Eyck – Leonardo da Vinci – Michelangelo – Claude Monet – Pierre Auguste Renoir – Edgar Degas – Paul Cézanne – Vincent Van Gogh – Paul Gauguin – Pablo Picasso Marc Chagall / What Is an Icon? / In His Own Back Garden / Cosi Fan Tutte etc.

[T]his book is not designed to stun you with loads of knowledge and information. It is not a conventional catalogue of who wrote what and when: The mood is somethimes serious, sometimes gay but the aim is simple- to share with the reader those very special enthusiasms and delights which the arts in all their variety unfailingly arouse in all those who explore them (p.7).

• Keywords: Art · Art – Rare · Catalogue Four – International Art · Criticism · Criticism and interpretation · Inanna Modern – Art Books · Painters · Painting · Provenance
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120289AB

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