Treasure palaces : great writers visit great museums / foreword by Nicholas Serota ; edited by Maggi...
Treasure palaces : great writers visit great museums / foreword by Nicholas Serota ; edited by Maggi...
Treasure palaces : great writers visit great museums / foreword by Nicholas Serota ; edited by Maggie Fergusson.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Public Affairs, 2016.
Call Numbers
G 2017/5547
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Foreward / Nicholas Serota -- Preface / Maggie Fergusson -- There's life in these walls, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York / Roddy Doyle -- Rodin's sonnets in stone, Musée Rodin, Paris / Allison Pearson -- Cool under fire, The National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul / Rory Stewart -- Cabi...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Public Affairs, 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Series
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2016.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
In this exuberant celebration of the worlds museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economists Inte...
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Full title
Treasure palaces : great writers visit great museums / foreword by Nicholas Serota ; edited by Maggie Fergusson.
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Economist books
"These articles were originally published in Intelligent life, the ideas, lifestyle and culture magazine from The Economist Group, which is now known as 1843 magazine."--Title page verso.
"First published in 2016 by Profile Books Ltd. in Great Britain"--Title page verso.
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©2016
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Call Numbers
G 2017/5547
Record Identifier
74VKVgy5lA3M
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgy5lA3M
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ISBN
1610396804 (paperback)
9781610396806 (paperback)
DDC
701.18
MMS ID
991024148791402626
