The Arts

by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

Ninth Printing

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Book desription: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Ninth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. First Edition. This is a fascinating survey of art through history. It begins with prehistoric art and moves through the ages and countries that made certain types of art famous. This book was written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem Van Loon to give the general reader (who perhaps had always considered this a rather remote subject) a better understanding and a greater appreciation of everything that has been done within the realm of painting and architecture and music, sculpture and the theater and most of the so-called minor arts from the beginnning of time until the moment we come so close to them that we begin to lose our perspective. The front endpapers chart the advances in art by time periods. The back endpapers chart it with associations to the type of clothing people wore. All is hand-written. 677 pages including a section on 'How to Use This Book', Musical Illustrations, and an index. Well-illustrated in color - an unusual book! The label on the spine has been taped at the vertical edges. A top corner is slightly bent in, and the spine ends have wear; the bottom is fraying a bit. The spine is slightly sunned. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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