THE ARTS

by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

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NY: Simon & Schuster, 1944 Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, color illustration on label on spine, gilt medallion on cover. 8vo. 677, (1) pp. Illustrated with 72 in text drawings and 80 full page illustrations in color & wash, all by Van Loon. Old damp-stain on cover and first few pages and rear cover and last few pages, all text readable. Reading Copy only. Dust jacket (now in Mylar) in tatters. GOOD/POOR. In 63 chapters, Van Loon discusses the history of art, from Prehistoric man through the art of Claude Debussy. Van Loon's idiosyncratic style takes the reader from the painter's studio into the study of the composer. It took Hendrik van Loon 30 years to learn enough to write The Arts, and then it took him 10 years to write it. The result is a book that cannot be duplicated anywhere in any language: a book about all the arts for all the people. His most ambitious work, it will probably prove the author's most useful one. Contents include: Foreword; Prologue; The Art of Prehistoric Man; The Art of Egypt; Babylon and Chaldea and the Land of the Mysterious Sumerians; Heinrich Schliemann; The Art of the Greeks; The Age of Pericles; Pots and Pans and Earrings and Spoons; The Etruscans and the Romans; The Jews; Early Christian Art; The Copts; The Art of the Byzantines; Russia; Islam; Medieval Persia; The Romanesque Period; The Provence; Gothic; The End of the Gothic Period; The Spirit of the Renaissance; Florence; Il Beato Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole; Niccolo Machiavelli; Florence Comes Into Its Own as the World's Greatest Art Center; The Putti; The Invention of Oil Painting; The Italian Picture Factory Gets Under Way; America; New Ears Begin to Listen Where New Eyes Have Already Been Taught to See; The New Prosperity Reaches the Heart of Europe; A Mighty Fortress is Our God; Baroque; The Dutch School of Painting; The Grand Siecle; Monsieur de Moliere Dies and Is Buired in Sacred Ground; The Actor Makes His Reappearance; The Opera; Cremona; A New and Fashionable Form of Entertainment; Rococo; Some More Rococo; Indian, China, and Japan; Goya; The Picture-Book GIves Way to the Music-Book; Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; Pompeii, Winckelmann, and Lessing; Revolution and Empire; Chaos: 1815-1937; The Romantic Period; Revolt in the Studio; Asylum; The Music of the Nineteenth Century; Das Lied; Paganini and Liszt; Berlioz; Daguerre; Johann Strauss; Chopin; Richard Wagner; Johannes Brahms; Claude Debussy; A Final Word; On How to Use This Book; A Few Musical Illustrations; Index. "Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 - March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. Born in Rotterdam, he came to the United States in 1903 to study at Cornell University. He was a correspondent during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. He later became a professor of history at Cornell University (1915-17) and in 1919 became an American citizen. During the 1920s Van Loon wrote many books, most notably The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. He went on to write many other very popular books aimed at young adults. As a writer he was known for emphasizing crucial historical events and giving a complete picture of individual characters, as well as the role of the arts in history. He also had an informal style which, particularly in The Story of Mankind, included personal anecdotes." - Wikipedia.. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Illus. by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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