The Scholar-Librarian: Books, Libraries, and the Visual Arts

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2005
Author
Author: Richard Wendorf
Language
English
Number of Pages
247 pp.
Publisher
Athenaeum; Knoll Press
City
Boston, MA; New Castle, DE
Region
United States
ISBN
1-58456-159-9
Annotation

Wendorf worked at Harvard and at the Boston Athenaeum. 

Contents: 

  • The petrified mouse 
  • The scholar-librarian 
  • Living with Piranesi 
  • Manuscripts, mazes, and Pope's Essay on man 
  • Piranesi's double ruin 
  • Antonioni's Blow-up : implicated artists and unintentional art 
  • The making of Johnson's "Life of Collins" 
  • Robert Dodsley as editor 
  • The secret life of type 
  • Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London.
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