Research Catalog

Title

Wordy : sounding off on high art, low appetite and the power of memory / Simon Schama.

Author

Schama, Simon,

Publication

London : Simon & Schuster Limited, 2019.

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Details

Description

402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over forty years. As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and award-winning columnist for many of the world's foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines. His commissioned subjects over the years have been numerous and wide ranging, from the music of Tom Waits, to the works of Sir Quentin Blake; the history of the colour blue, to discussing what skills an actor needs to create a unique performance of Falstaff. Schama's tastes are wide-ranging as they are eloquent, incisive, witty and thought provoking and have entertained and educated the readers of some of the world's most respected publications - the Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone magazine. Wordy is a celebration of one of the world's foremost writers. This collection of fifty essays chosen by the man himself stretches across four decades and is a treasure trove for all those who have a passion for the arts, politics, food and life.

Subject

• Art > History
• Arts
• Authorship
• English essays
• Schama, Simon

Genre/Form

Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Remembrance -- Arts, artists and critics -- Music, theatre, film and books -- Politics, history and the public world.

ISBN

• 1471180107
• 9781471180101
• 9781471180095
• 1471180093

LCCN

99982269643

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries