{"product_id":"rendez-vous-with-art-9780500239247","title":"Rendez-Vous with Art","description":"Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper--all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago--this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e De Montebello shares the sense of excitement recorded by Goethe in his autobiography--\"akin to the emotion experienced on entering a House of God\"--but also reflects on why these secular temples might nevertheless be the \"worst possible places to look at art.\" But in the end both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter and some of the intense creations of human beings throughout our long history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780500239247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2014 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/14\/2014 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 1303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2015 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Philippe de Montebello, Martin Gayford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44683424465077,"sku":"9780500239247","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c3c0dae2-ff78-4349-8ca9-6283766382e0.jpg?v=1727795832","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rendez-vous-with-art-9780500239247","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}