Hugh Honour (1927–2016)
Author of The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture
About the Author
Patrick Hugh Honour was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom on September 26, 1927. He received a bachelor's degree in 18th-century English literature from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. In the mid-1950's, he started writing and editing with John Fleming. For Penguin Books, they show more edited the series Style and Civilization. They also edited two more series for Penguin: Architect and Society and Art in Context. Together they wrote The Visual Arts: A History, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, and The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture with Nikolaus Pevsner. Honour wrote several books on his own including Horace Walpole, Chinoiserie: A Vision of Cathay, The Companion Guide to Venice, Romanticism, The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I, and The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent. Honour organized the traveling exhibition The European Vision of America for the United States Bicentennial in 1976. As a companion to the exhibition, he wrote The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time. He died on May 19, 2016 at the 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Hugh Honour
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. 4: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators (1989) 64 copies
The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time (1975) 61 copies
The Image of the Black in Western Art IV: From the American Revolution to World War 1, Part 2 (Black Models and White Myths) (1989) 53 copies
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire: New Edition (1976) 49 copies
Associated Works
The Horizon History of China & The Horizon Book of the Arts of China (1969) — Introduction, some editions — 26 copies
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- Canonical name
- Honour, Hugh
- Legal name
- Honour, Patrick Hugh
- Birthdate
- 1927-09-26
- Date of death
- 2016-05-19
- Gender
- male
- Education
- King's School, Canterbury, England, UK
St Catherine's College, Cambridge University (BA|1949) - Occupations
- art historian
writer
editor - Organizations
- The Times of London (contributor)
The Connoisseur (magazine contributor) - Awards and honors
- Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1972)
British Academy (International Fellow, 1986)
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2000)
Mitchell Prize for Art History (1982)
George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award (1989)
Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award (1990) (show all 7)
Serena Medal (1995) - Relationships
- Fleming, John (life partner)
Lubbock, Percy (colleague) - Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Asolo, Italy
Lucca, Italy - Place of death
- Tofori, Italy
- Associated Place (for map)
- Italy
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A solid intro to Neo-classical art and philosophy of art. Useful illustrations, though I would wish for color rather than black and white. But I am not an early art historian, so what do I know. Easily accessible to the non-art crowd, but a working knowledge of the time period discussed would be useful.
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The Visual Arts is recognized as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art available in one volume. Now completely revised, it's more comprehensive and compelling than ever.Authors Honour and Fleming take readers from pre-history to Post-Modernism, exploring all the familiar movements and masterworks but also delving into non-Western traditions, architecture, and the decorative arts. The incisive text (incorporating new research and discoveries), more than 1,350 illustrations show more (nearly 20% new), maps (all redrawn), time charts (all redesigned), and sidebars (including the new "Concepts" and "Urban Development") make this an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand art in context. show less
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- Works
- 27
- Also by
- 4
- Members
- 2,815
- Popularity
- #9,120
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 7
- ISBNs
- 154
- Languages
- 11