Simon Schama's Power of Art by Simon Schama

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Simon Schama's Power of Art by Simon SchamaISBN: 9780563487104 BBC Books, 1 January 2006 Hardcover, 416 pages "Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock,

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