Learning to look / John Pope-Hennessy
1991, First Edition. New York : Doubleday. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #404513
ISBN: 0385261411
Physical description: x, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: A family and a son -- A vocation -- An abbreviated pilgrimage -- From peace to war -- Search for truth -- The lure of Tuscany -- Art for people -- The mother of museums -- The pleasure of the multitude -- Teaching to learn -- The uses of scholarship -- Knowledge and intuition -- Home to Florence. Subjects: Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham Sir 1913-1994; British Museum (London); Victoria and Albert Museum (London); Art historians England ; Biography; Art Psychology; Museum directors Great Britain 20th century ; Biography; Administrators Autobiography; Academics Autobiography; England; Great Britain.
Price: €14.95