The Arts

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1937. 1ST. HARDBOUND. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. 1ST. 9.375 X 2 X 6.5. pp. 677. Publisher: Simon & Schuster; (1937) Language: English HARDBOUND: 677 pages Item Weight: 3.2 pounds HAS A PROTECTIVE MYLAR SLEEVE. THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE Condition. This book includes a custom designed book mark created by the author. Inside the dust jack includes a folded map illustration by the author. FROM INSIDE FRONT DJ: The Arts (The Story of Painting and Sculpture and Architecture and Music as well as all the So-Called Minor Arts from the Days of the Caveman Until the Present Time). Written and Illustrated by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. In the space of nearly 700 pages and with the lively aid of the most extraordinary drawings he has ever made, Dr. van Loon gives the general reader a love for and an understanding of the background of all that is most enduring in the arts. He covers painting, architecture music, sculpture, and the so called minor arts. He begins with the cave drawings of 25, 000 B.C. and comes down to our own day, with way stops at Egypt, Babylon, and Chaldea; at the Athens of Pericles; amid the mysterious remains of Etruscan art; in Byzantium and medieval Russia; in the desert of the Islamites and the gardens of beauty loving Persians; in Provence, Renaissance Italy, Rembrandt's Holland, Beethoven's Vienna.