These Fragments
Nicholas Goodison(Author)
Elliott & Thompson Limited (Publisher)
Published on 2. September 2005
Book
Hardback
60 pages
978-1-904027-42-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is an unusual book about an ancient landscape. Nicholas Goodison walks at Ardtornish on the west coast of Scotland, which he knows and loves. The sights that he records are not the ancient hills, rivers and lochs, the majestic seascape or the everchanging light, but the man-made ephemera that he sees along the paths. They tell a story of agriculture, industry, transport, architecture, recreation and sport; a story too of successive owners, of farm and estate workers, contractors, visitors and holiday-makers. But they tell also a story of decay, as water, wind and weather eat them away, a foretaste of the brevity of man's tenure of a land of unbelievable age. An art historian, the author has an eye for beauty and proportion, and finds it in unlikely objects.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
48 colour images
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 272 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904027-42-3 (9781904027423)
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Person
Sir Nicholas Goodison is the former Chairman of the London Stock Exchange (1976-89) and of the TSB Group (1989-95) He chaired the National Art Collections Fund for seventeen years, and the Courtauld Institute of Art for twenty. He chairs the Burlington Magazine, and is President of the Furniture History Society. He was Chairman of the Crafts Council for eight years, and a Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial fund for ten. He is the author of many scholarly articles and of two major books, Matthew Boulton; Ormolu and English Barometers1680-1860. He first visited Ardtornish in 1958.