The magic of handwriting the Pedro Corrêa do Lago collection, The Morgan Library & Museum
"Handwriting works magic: it transports us back to defining moments in history, creativity, and everyday life, and connects us intimately with the people who marked the page. For nearly half a century, Brazilian author and publisher Pedro Corrêa do Lago has been assembling one of the most compr...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Handwriting works magic: it transports us back to defining moments in history, creativity, and everyday life, and connects us intimately with the people who marked the page. For nearly half a century, Brazilian author and publisher Pedro Corrêa do Lago has been assembling one of the most comprehensive autograph collections of our era, acquiring thousands of handwritten letters, manuscripts, and musical compositions as well as inscribed photographs, documents, and drawings. From an 1153 document signed by four medieval popes to a 2006 thumbprint signature by physicist Stephen Hawking, the items gathered in this book span nearly nine hundred years, and along the way bring us up close and personal with the writers, artists, composers, political figures, performers, explorers, scientists, philosophers, and rebels whose actions and creations have made them legends. Displayed for the first time in a major exhibition at New York's Morgan Library and Museum, the 140 extraordinary selections include letters by Lucrezia Borgia, Vincent van Gogh, and Emily Dickinson, annotated sketches by Michelangelo, Jean Cocteau, and Charlie Chaplin, and manuscripts by Giacomo Puccini, Jorge Luis Borges, and Marcel Proust. Handwriting is one of the most visceral means by which we leave tracks of our existence. At a time when so much of our communication has become utterly immaterial, this collection conveys the power of the pen to illuminate the energy, passion, vulnerability, and imagination of humankind across the ages."--Book jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | "The Morgan Library & Museum ... presents this selection of letters, manuscripts, and other examples of historic handwritting from the Corrêa do Lago collection"--Page 8 Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, June 1-September 16, 2018 Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-459) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 463 pages illustrations (some color) 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9783836574389 978-3-8365-7438-9 3836574381 3-8365-7438-1 |