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Bezig met laden... Private View: The Secret Lives of the World's Greatest Artistsdoor Alexandra Connor
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A witty, informed and entertaining excurson into the lives and times of the great artists - their women, their crimes, their illnesses, their perversions and their patrons. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)709.22The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts History, geographic treatment, biography Biography (artists not limited to a specific form) Collected biographyWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Each chapter is composed of themed anecdoes from the lives of great artists; there are puns and bad jokes (some of them mercifully obscure to a non-Brit), and the transitions between stories are baldly mechanical. The forced gaity is even more grating when discussing the artists who beat their wives and did other truly despicable things.
I wish this book's editor had sat down with Ms. Connor and told her that she didn't need to apologise for her subject matter or talk down to her reader. It's possible to write a popular history without assuming that your reader has a seventeen-second attention span and needs to be elbowed in the ribs every second paragraph.
For a good popular history, see Ricky Jay's "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women," Tom Holland's "Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic," or Barbara Mertz' recently updated "Temples, Tombs, and Heiroglyphs." ( )