Treasure palaces : great writers visit great museums / foreword by Nicholas Serota, edited by Maggie Fergusson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fergusson, Maggie, editor.

Economist Books.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art appreciation.

Museums.

Art museums.

Art criticism.

Local Subjects:

Art appreciation.

Art criticism.

Museums.

Physical Description:

xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Public Affairs : Economist Books, 2016.

Contents:

Foreward / Nicholas Serota

Preface / Maggie Fergusson

There's life in these walls, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York / Roddy Doyle

Rodin's sonnets in stone, Musée Rodin, Paris / Allison Pearson

Cool under fire, The National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul / Rory Stewart

Cabinets of wonder, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford / Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Painting in stone, Museo Dell'Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Florence / Margaret Drabble

Sanctum in the city, The Frick Collection, New York / Don Paterson

The wings of Capri, Villa San Michele, Capri / Ali Smith

Spurned no longer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / Tim Winton

The pity of war, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres / Michael Morpurgo

Love bade me welcome, The Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA / Ann Patchett

A plaster cast in Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensmuseum, Copenhagen / Alan Hollinghurst

Palais of the dolls, Musée de la Poupée, Paris / Jacqueline Wilson

The Odessaphiles, Odessa State Literary Museum, Odessa / A. D. Miller

A smiling shrunken goddess, Corinium Museum, Cirencester / Alice Oswalk

Sons and mothers, Ensorhuis, Ostend / John Burnside

A home from home, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Claire Messud

Where Sibelius fell silent, Ainola, Järvenpää / Julian Barnes

Wordsworth's continuous force, Dove Cottage, Grasmere / Ann Wroe

Agony to ecstasy, The Prado, Madrid / John Lanchester

The museum of heartbreak, The Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb / Aminatta Forna

The quiet theatres, The Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery, London / Andrew Motion

A debt to Rudolph Leopold, Leopold Museum, Vienna / William Boyd

Thank you for the music, ABBA: The Museum, Stockholm / Matthew Sweet

Glasgow's palace of dreams, Kelvingrove, Glasgow / Andrew O'Hagan

About the authors

Illustrations.

Notes:

"These articles were originally published in Intelligent life, the ideas, lifestyle and culture magazine from The Economist Group, which is now known as 1843 magazine."--Title page verso

"First published in 2016 by Profile Books Ltd. in Great Britain"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781610396806

1610396804

OCLC:

951007364