The Last of the Light: About Twilight
Peter Davidson
List price £15.95
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781780238272
- Published:
- 01 Sep 2017
- Publisher:
- Reaktion Books
- Dimensions:
- 280 pages - 234 x 156mm
- Number of Illustrations:
- 29 illustrations, 22 in colour
- Availability:
- Available
Categories:
This ambitious account of the arts of the evening, now available in paperback, deftly combines prose-poetry, memoir, philosophy and art history. Intertwining personal, cultural and artistic histories, it is a richly rewarding book written in a unique voice.
A meditation on twilight in Western thought, painting and literature, which combines memoir, literature and art history.
Peter Davidson is Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author of a book of essays about northern culture, Distance and Memory (2013), a collection of verse, The Palace of Oblivion (2008), and the cultural and aesthetic history The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005).