The Arts

by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1937. Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. The inside of the Dustjacket unfolds into a large map of the arts, drawn by the author, suitable for framing. Board comers are sharp, pages are slightly foxed at edges, but are bright, clean and unmarked, and illustrations are incredible. The book contains over 70 hand-drawn illustrations in the text as well as over 80 in color and wash. "In the space of nearly 700 pages and with the lively aid of the most extraordinary drawings (many in full color) he has ever made, Dr. van Loon gives the general reader a love for and an understanding of the background of all that is most enduring in the arts. He covers painting, architecture, music, sculpture, and the so-called minor arts. He begins with the cave drawings of 25,000 B.C. and comes down to our own day, with way stops at Egypt, Babylon, and Chaldea; at the Athens of Pericles, amid the mysterious remains of Etruscan art; in Byzantium and medieval Russia; in the desert of the Islamites and the gardens of beauty-loving Persians; in Provence, Renaissance Italy, Rembrandt's Holland, Beethoven's Vienna..." Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.. 4th Printing. Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. 6.5 x 9.5 in., 677 Pages.

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