ARTBOOK - SÁCH TIẾNG ANH - The Library: A World History

Giới thiệu ARTBOOK - SÁCH TIẾNG ANH - The Library: A World History

• Format Hardback | 328 pages
  
• Dimensions 228 x 293 x 35mm | 2,080g
  
• Publication date 20 Aug 2020
  
• Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
  
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
  
• Language English
  
  

  Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world and from the beginnings of writing to the present day. In its highest form the library is a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture and architecture. From their designs for the libraries of ancient Rome to those of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, architects have sought to outdo each other by producing ever more spectacular settings.The author and photographer have travelled the globe, documenting some eighty libraries. Architectural historian James Campbell contributes an authoritative and highly readable account. Will Pryce is one of the world's leading photographers of interiors and architecture. Arresting and technically flawless, his photographs are both lucid and deeply atmospheric.