The House of Life
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Word Count
90,000 words, Guess
Page Count
360 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehouseoflife00praz
- ISBN-101888173556
- ISBN-139781888173550
- LibraryThing4091032
- Goodreads2306238
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- OCLC Control Number56513376
- Open LibraryOL12183135M
Description
In simplest terms, it is a house tour, but Praz's Roman apartment was no ordinary house it was a wunderkammer, a house of wonders, rooms replete with objects d'art and sculpture, walls hung with paintings and prints, bureaus overflowing with postcards and ephemera. And Praz is no ordinary guide; he leads you, the reader, through each room lecturing on the objects therein. What emerge are his passions, his immense erudition, his insatiable curiosity, his undeniable amiability, his infectious enthusiasm. What might have been a predictable didactic exercise is transformed and expanded into a multi-layered disquisition on the nature of art, on the challenge of investigation and discovery, on the idiosyncrasies of personalities, on the serendipitous way in which art and the objects we choose to surround us tell stories that go far beyond their purely physical attributes.
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