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Richard Wendorf

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Description:The ten linked chapters in The Scholar-Librarian document the professional, scholarly, and personal interests of one of America's most distinguished library directors - a librarian, moreover, who is widely admired in the academic world for the clarity and elegance of his critical writing. In these essays, Richard Wendorf's critical intelligence can be gauged in his analysis of works as diverse as the poetical manuscripts of Alexander Pope, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, and Piranesi's early etchings, as well as various typographical and bibliographical issues. But, several of these essays also reveal another side of the author as he writes in a more personal and often humorous style about collecting, libraries, and librarianship. Both critically and professionally, Wendorf is a problem-solver, and readers will relish joining him as he examines the precise relationship between Piranesi's ruins and the etching process or as he persuades a potential donor to present a fabled letter by John Keats to Harvard University. Richard Wendorf is the Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenæum, the eleventh person to hold the directorship since the library's founding in 1807. He is an eighteenth-century scholar with a particular interest in English art, literature, and printing history. He has edited The Works of William Collins with Charles Ryskamp 1979 and is the author of William Collins and Eighteenth-Century English Poetry 1981 , The Elements of Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England 1990 , Sir Joshua The Painter in Society 1996 , and After Sir Essays on British Art and Cultural History 2005 . With 19 black-and-white illustrations. Co-published with The Boston Athenæum. viii , 247+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Scholar-librarian: Books, Libraries, And The Visual Arts. To get started finding The Scholar-librarian: Books, Libraries, And The Visual Arts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The ten linked chapters in The Scholar-Librarian document the professional, scholarly, and personal interests of one of America's most distinguished library directors - a librarian, moreover, who is widely admired in the academic world for the clarity and elegance of his critical writing. In these essays, Richard Wendorf's critical intelligence can be gauged in his analysis of works as diverse as the poetical manuscripts of Alexander Pope, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, and Piranesi's early etchings, as well as various typographical and bibliographical issues. But, several of these essays also reveal another side of the author as he writes in a more personal and often humorous style about collecting, libraries, and librarianship. Both critically and professionally, Wendorf is a problem-solver, and readers will relish joining him as he examines the precise relationship between Piranesi's ruins and the etching process or as he persuades a potential donor to present a fabled letter by John Keats to Harvard University. Richard Wendorf is the Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenæum, the eleventh person to hold the directorship since the library's founding in 1807. He is an eighteenth-century scholar with a particular interest in English art, literature, and printing history. He has edited The Works of William Collins with Charles Ryskamp 1979 and is the author of William Collins and Eighteenth-Century English Poetry 1981 , The Elements of Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England 1990 , Sir Joshua The Painter in Society 1996 , and After Sir Essays on British Art and Cultural History 2005 . With 19 black-and-white illustrations. Co-published with The Boston Athenæum. viii , 247+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Scholar-librarian: Books, Libraries, And The Visual Arts. To get started finding The Scholar-librarian: Books, Libraries, And The Visual Arts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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