The Accidental Masterpiece
Subtitle: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The; Penguin Press
Published: August 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781594200557
Subjects: Philosophy Of Art; General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Psychology; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Criticism; Essays; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Creation (Literary, artistic,; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
First sentence: BY ONE OF THOSE ACCIDENTS of fate, in 1893 the painter Pierre Bonnard was walking down a street in Paris (or so the story goes) and he spied a young, elfin woman alighting from a tram.