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    Treasure palaces : great writers visit great museums / foreword by Nicholas Serota ; edited by Maggie Fergusson.
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    New York, NY : Public Affairs, 2016.
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  • Museums.
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  • Art museums.
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  • Art criticism.
  • ISBN: 
    9781610396806 (pbk.)
    Series: 
    Economist books (Series)
    Description: 
    xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    Contents: 
    Foreword / Nicholas Serota -- Preface / Maggie Fergusson -- There's life in these walls, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York / Roddy Doyle -- Rodin's sonnets in stone, Musée Rodin, Paris / Allison Pearson -- Cool under fire, The National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul / Rory Stewart -- Cabinets of wonder, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford / Frank Cottrell-Boyce -- Painting in stone, Museo Dell'Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Florence / Margaret Drabble -- Sanctum in the city, The Frick Collection, New York / Don Paterson -- The wings of Capri, Villa San Michele, Capri / Ali Smith -- Spurned no longer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / Tim Winton -- The pity of war, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres / Michael Morpurgo -- Love bade me welcome, The Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA / Ann Patchett -- A plaster cast in Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensmuseum, Copenhagen / Alan Hollinghurst -- Palais of the dolls, Musée de la Poupée, Paris / Jacqueline Wilson -- The Odessaphiles, Odessa State Literary Museum, Odessa / A. D. Miller -- A smiling shrunken goddess, Corinium Museum, Cirencester / Alice Oswalk -- Sons and mothers, Ensorhuis, Ostend / John Burnside -- A home from home, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Claire Messud -- Where Sibelius fell silent, Ainola, Järvenpää / Julian Barnes -- Wordsworth's continuous force, Dove Cottage, Grasmere / Ann Wroe -- Agony to ecstasy, The Prado, Madrid / John Lanchester -- The museum of heartbreak, The Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb / Aminatta Forna -- The quiet theatres, The Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery, London / Andrew Motion -- A debt to Rudolph Leopold, Leopold Museum, Vienna / William Boyd -- Thank you for the music, ABBA: The Museum, Stockholm / Matthew Sweet -- Glasgow's palace of dreams, Kelvingrove, Glasgow / Andrew O'Hagan -- About the authors -- Illustrations.
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