Treasure Palaces
Great Writers Visit Great Museums
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Edited by Maggie Fergusson
Foreword by Nicholas Serota
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Acclaimed novelist William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna — a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Mus’e in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd’s “The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke,” a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain’s Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University’s Museum of Natural History — which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack.
Treasure Palaces is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world’s most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.
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“Anyone who appreciates fine writing will treasure this literary memory palace.” –Booklist
“An entertaining and idiosyncratic tour of obscure museums that have inspired and challenged famous authors throughout their lives…The collection takes an intimate look both at the writers and the museums themselves, providing deep insights into how artists connect with the world around them.” –Publishers Weekly
“Lively…These graceful, vicarious tours to museums famous and obscure are almost as good as the real thing.” —Kirkus Reviews
- On Sale
- Nov 8, 2016
- Page Count
- 240 pages
- Publisher
- The Economist
- ISBN-13
- 9781610396806
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