Buy Used

$14.80

Used: Good | Details

Sold by Revival Books UK

Condition: Used: Good

Comment: A few small marks to the page edges. The dust jacket is a little tatty and torn. Over 2 Million items sold. Fast dispatch and delivery. Excellent Customer Feedback. Most items shipped same or next working day from the UK.

Turn on 1-Click ordering for this browser

12 used & new from $14.78

See All Buying Options

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

Hang-Ups: A Collection of Essays on Art Hardcover – November 4, 2004

by Simon Schama (Author)

3 customer reviews

See all 3 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Amazon Price New from Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$12.06

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

—

$214.14

$14.78

Paperback, Import

"Please retry"

—

$11.40

$9.69

Pre-eminent author and art historian - Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. In "Hang-Ups", a personal selection of his articles from, amongst others, The New Yorker, appears in Britain for the very first time. Brilliantly and lucidly written by one of the most singular voices in non-fiction, this volume of provocative and often idiosyncratic essays makes hugely satisfying reading for lovers of both art and social history. It contains pieces on artists as diverse as David Hockney, Rembrandt and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and on such subjects as the 'unforgettable peculiarity' of Stanley Spencer. From the author whose writing has been called 'sublime' and whose ability to bring art and history vividly to life has earned him admiration worldwide, "Hang-Ups" is Schama's rallying cry for the art lover to look at familiar works of art and their artists - and embrace a new way of seeing.

Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Simon Schama

39

Paperback
$16.32
Simon Schama

138

DVD
$28.14
Simon Schama

35

Paperback
$18.41
Simon Schama

23

Hardcover
Simon Schama

52

Paperback
$15.07
Simon Schama

20

Paperback
$15.05

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested In These Sponsored Links

(What's this?)

Independent Collectors	-	For Contemporary Art Collectors. Share the passion of collecting!	www.independent-collectors.com/
Exhibition A	-	Why just decorate when you can collect? Shop fine art prints.	www.exhibitiona.com/

Ad feedback

NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Product Details

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: BBC Books (November 4, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0563521732
ISBN-13: 978-0563521730
Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,295,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #298642 in Books > Arts & Photography
- #650300 in Books > Reference

Would you like to update product info, give feedback on images, or tell us about a lower price?

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars

5 star		67%
4 star		33%
3 star		0%
2 star		0%
1 star		0%

See all 3 customer reviews

Share your thoughts with other customers

Write a customer review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

Schama art essays

By Deborah on March 28, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase

Mr. Schama's writing is often delightful and the essays are very interesting, though I tend to pay less attention when he discusses abstract art. I saw several of the shows he reviews in the book when I lived in New York and found his contributions, historical and otherwise, valuable and insightful. As far as the kindle version is concerned, the links to images often do not work at all or, when they do work, jump annoyingly from one to another, forth and back. They are not very good when they do work, but I would still have appreciated seeing them without a hassle. Also, they do not enlarge as kindle images often do. The lack of a clean sweep of 5 stars is only due to the kindle image problem.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Hang-Ups: Simon Schama

By Jan Wall on March 19, 2011

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

Exactly what I had hoped for. Better than a university art history course. Excellent writing, good coverage, and I can find whatever paintings I want to see on the internet.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Simon Schama at play in the fields of the arts

By A Reader on August 8, 2006

Format: Hardcover

As a reader who enjoyed Schama's impossibly learned and digressive _Landscape and Memory_ but was less thrilled by the History of Britain series (especially the BBC TV versions where the good professor drifted towards the manner of the stereotypical Oxbridge Don and periodically forgot the marvellous examples of James Burke, David Attenborough and Michael Wood), I'm delighted to see this collection of essays in print. The subjects range from Dutch art to British art to contemporary artists to the crafts and all the essays exemplify Schama's historically informed and deeply engaged and engaging style of writing. The other critics who come to mind when reading this collection of essays are Ruskin and Arthur Danto (in his columns for the _Nation_). Readers of the New Yorker will recognize the wonderful pieces on Hogarth (Mad Cows and Englishmen) and the Scottish designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh but the real masterpieces in this collection (for this reader) are the pieces on Frederic Brenner (Looking Jewish), Anselm Kiefer and 1492 (the Columbus Exhibition 1991).

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

See all 3 customer reviews (newest first)

Write a customer review