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<br> Brewer is a fine ringmaster.... He paints thorough pictures of each player. --Publishers Weekly<p><br> A fascinating book...a gripping fable of the never-ending conflict between art and money. --The Mail on Sunday<p><br> Excellent... has the unmistakable vibrancy of original research. --The Sunday Times<p><br> Wholly engaging ... he rests an ambitious enquiry on a brisk, absorbing story. His book is a huge risk, and a triumph. --The Scotsman<p><br>Praise for Pleasures of the Imagination <br> Like all really original achievements, it makes us sharply rethink things we supposed we knew well. --Simon Schama<p><br> Brewer takes us on a grand tour of the exciting, fluid, often raucous world of the 18th-century arts. . . . A brilliantly illustrated social history. --New York Times Book Review<p><br> A magnificent achievement. . . . Enormous in its scope, astute in its choices of examples, learned in its resources, but written with an almost unfailing lucidity and accessibility. --Ne

Brewer is a fine ringmaster.... He paints thorough pictures of each player. --Publishers Weekly A fascinating book...a gripping fable of the never-ending conflict between art and money. --The Mail on Sunday Excellent... has the unmistakable vibrancy of original research. --The Sunday Times Wholly engaging ... he rests an ambitious enquiry on a brisk, absorbing story. His book is a huge risk, and a triumph. --The ScotsmanPraise for Pleasures of the Imagination Like all really original achievements, it makes us sharply rethink things we supposed we knew well. --Simon Schama Brewer takes us on a grand tour of the exciting, fluid, often raucous world of the 18th-century arts. . . . A brilliantly illustrated social history. --New York Times Book Review A magnificent achievement. . . . Enormous in its scope, astute in its choices of examples, learned in its resources, but written with an almost unfailing lucidity and accessibility. --New Republic Immensely rich and vividly and eloquently conveyed. --Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review

Brewer is a fine ringmaster.... He paints thorough pictures of each player.--Publishers Weekly A fascinating book...a gripping fable of the never-ending conflict between art and money.--The Mail on Sunday Excellent... has the unmistakable vibrancy of original research.--The Sunday Times Wholly engaging ... he rests an ambitious enquiry on a brisk, absorbing story. His book is a huge risk, and a triumph.--The Scotsman Praise for Pleasures of the Imagination: Like all really original achievements, it makes us sharply rethink things we supposed we knew well.--Simon Schama Brewer takes us on a grand tour of the exciting, fluid, often raucous world of the 18th-century arts. . . . A brilliantly illustrated social history.--New York Times Book Review A magnificent achievement. . . . Enormous in its scope, astute in its choices of examples, learned in its resources, but written with an almost unfailing lucidity and accessibility.--New Republic Immensely rich and vividly and eloquently conveyed.--Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review

<br> Brewer is a fine ringmaster.... He paints thorough pictures of each player. --Publishers Weekly<br> A fascinating book...a gripping fable of the never-ending conflict between art and money. --The Mail on Sunday<br> Excellent... has the unmistakable vibrancy of original research. --The Sunday Times<br> Wholly engaging ... he rests an ambitious enquiry on a brisk, absorbing story. His book is a huge risk, and a triumph. --The Scotsman<br>Praise for Pleasures of the Imagination: <br> Like all really original achievements, it makes us sharply rethink things we supposed we knew well. --Simon Schama<br> Brewer takes us on a grand tour of the exciting, fluid, often raucous world of the 18th-century arts. . . . A brilliantly illustrated social history. --New York Times Book Review<br> A magnificent achievement. . . . Enormous in its scope, astute in its choices of examples, learned in its resources, but written with an almost unfailing lucidity and accessibility. --New Republic<br> Immens

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John Brewer is Eli and Eyde Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at California Institute of Technology and the author of many books, including Pleasures of the Imagination. .

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