Enchanted World: The Magic Of Pictures
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few art books manage to capture the ineffable — the way a single image can suspend time, stir memory, or conjure an entire world from pigment and light — but Enchanted World: The Magic of Pictures does precisely that. Compiled by Bryan Holme, this visually magnificent volume presents 96 illustrations, 44 of them in full colour, tracing the extraordinary power of pictures across centuries and styles, from luminous Renaissance masterworks to the bold strokes of modern art, each image selected to demonstrate how visual art transcends mere representation and becomes something closer to magic. Holme, a celebrated editorial director at Studio Books and Viking Press, brought to this collection the same discerning eye that defined his long career championing the art of illustration and visual storytelling. The book argues, with quiet authority, that pictures possess an enchantment all their own — a capacity to move, provoke, and transform the viewer in ways that words alone cannot achieve. Published by the prestigious Thames and Hudson, it stands as both a stunning gallery of human creativity and a meditation on why we have always been spellbound by what we see. For anyone who has ever stood before a painting and felt the world fall briefly, beautifully away, this volume promises to rekindle that sensation on every page.
Author: Bryan Holme
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few art books manage to capture the ineffable — the way a single image can suspend time, stir memory, or conjure an entire world from pigment and light — but Enchanted World: The Magic of Pictures does precisely that. Compiled by Bryan Holme, this visually magnificent volume presents 96 illustrations, 44 of them in full colour, tracing the extraordinary power of pictures across centuries and styles, from luminous Renaissance masterworks to the bold strokes of modern art, each image selected to demonstrate how visual art transcends mere representation and becomes something closer to magic. Holme, a celebrated editorial director at Studio Books and Viking Press, brought to this collection the same discerning eye that defined his long career championing the art of illustration and visual storytelling. The book argues, with quiet authority, that pictures possess an enchantment all their own — a capacity to move, provoke, and transform the viewer in ways that words alone cannot achieve. Published by the prestigious Thames and Hudson, it stands as both a stunning gallery of human creativity and a meditation on why we have always been spellbound by what we see. For anyone who has ever stood before a painting and felt the world fall briefly, beautifully away, this volume promises to rekindle that sensation on every page.