Opening book details…
Can I read The sleeve should be illegal : & other reflections on art at the Frick on EtoBox?
The sleeve should be illegal : & other reflections on art at the Frick by Adam Gopnik; Michaelyn Mitchell; André Aciman; Ida Applebroog; Firelei Báez; Victoria Beckham; Tom Bianchi; Carter Brey; Rosanne Cash; Jerome Charyn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The sleeve should be illegal : & other reflections on art at the Frick about?
Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Lena Dunham to Abbi Jacobson and Edmund White. A cultural haven for museumgoers in New York and beyond, The Frick Collection holds masterpieces by some of the most celebrated artists in the Western tradition among them Bellini, Gainsborough, Goya, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Whistler installed in a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue. This book includes 61 reflections on the Frick's preeminent collection, with the contributors writing about an artwork that has personal significance, sharing how it has moved, challenged, puzzled or inspired them. Each text is accompanied by an illustration of the artwork. For example, writer Jonathan Lethem tells how he started going to the Frick as a teenager, to gaze at Hans Holbein's portraits of Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More. Historian Simon Schama revels in Turner's Mortlake Terrace : Early Summer Morning, which reminds him of his own childhood growing up next to the River Thames. This engaging anthology attests to the inspirational power of art and reminds us that ther
Who reads The sleeve should be illegal : & other reflections on art at the Frick?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Adam Gopnik; Michaelyn Mitchell; André Aciman; Ida Applebroog; Firelei Báez; Victoria Beckham; Tom Bianchi; Carter Brey; Rosanne Cash; Jerome Charyn
- Publisher
- The Frick Collection in association with DelMonico Books - D.A.P. New York
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781942884798
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Art, History, Arts
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Adam Gopnik; Michaelyn Mitchell; André Aciman; Ida Applebroog; Firelei Báez; Victoria Beckham; Tom Bianchi; Carter Brey; Rosanne Cash; Jerome Charyn
Similar books
- Elective affinities : Edmund de Waal at the Frick Collection — Edmund De Waal, Charlotte Vignon, Frick Collection Staff (2019)
- Reflections on Exile : And Other Literary and Cultural Essays — Edward W. Said, Rosa Gallego Blanco (2000)
- Art in the Frick Collection : Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts — Charles Ryskamp ... et al.; photography by Richard di Liberto and John Bigelow Taylor (1996)
- Fragonard's Progress Of Love At The Frick Collection — Colin B. Bailey (2011)
- What Should Be Done About Illegal Immigration? — Haugen, David M., 1969- author (2017)
- Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America (The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America) — Andrea Bayer; Edgar Peters Bowron; Virginia Brilliant; Andria Derstine; Marco Grassi; Ian Kennedy; J. Patrice Marandel; Richard E Spear; Eric M Zafran; Pablo Pérez d'Ors (2017)