Hugh Honour (1927–2016)

Author of The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture

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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

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The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture (1966) 710 copies

A World History of Art (1982) 418 copies

The Visual Arts: A History (1982) 332 copies

Neo-Classicism (1968) 250 copies

Romanticism (1979) 197 copies

The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1977) 109 copies

The Companion Guide to Venice (1965) 106 copies

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and… (1989) 55 copies

The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent (1991) 54 copies

The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time (1975) 54 copies

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire: New Edition (1976) 45 copies

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and… (1989) 41 copies

The European vision of America: A special exhibition to honor the Bicentennial of the United States, organized by the… (1975) 35 copies

Cabinet Makers and Furniture Designers (1969) 31 copies

Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathay (1961) 31 copies

Goldsmiths and Silversmiths (Great craftsmen) (1971) 12 copies

Canova's Theseus and the Minotaur (1969) 3 copies

Antiquités et Objets d'art 1, L'argenterie 2 copies

I grandi mobilieri 2 copies

I trionfi di Volpato : il centrotavola del Museo di Bassano del Grappa e il "biscuit" neoclassico (2003) 2 copies

Horace Walpole (1957) 2 copies

Antiquites & Objets d'art - Tapisseries - 2 1 copy

L'image du noir dans l'art Occidental 1 copy

Carnets khmers (1998) 1 copy

The Horizon Book of the Arts of China 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Horizon Book of the Arts of China (1969) — Introduction, some editions — 52 copies

The Horizon History of China & The Horizon Book of the Arts of China (1969) — Introduction, some editions — 26 copies

Heritage of Images: A Selection of Lectures (1970) — Editor — 24 copies

Turner: Rain, steam, and speed (1972) — Series editor — 16 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Honour, Hugh
Legal name: Honour, Patrick Hugh
Birthdate: 1927-09-26
Date of death: 2016-05-19
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK
Place of death: Tofori, Italy
Places of residence: Asolo, Italy
Lucca, Italy
Education: King's School, Canterbury, England, UK
St Catherine's College, Cambridge University (BA|1949)
Occupations: art historian
writer
editor
Relationships: Fleming, John (life partner)
Lubbock, Percy (colleague)
Organizations: The Times of London (contributor)
The Connoisseur (magazine contributor)
Awards and honors: Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1972)
Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award (1990)
Mitchell Prize for Art History (1982)
Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (1986)

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The Visual Arts: A History by John Fleming, Hugh Honour

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 (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.… (more)

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Cultural_Attache | 1 other review | Jul 15, 2018 |

The visual arts : a history by Hugh Honour

Better than the Gowing. I think, better than Janson.

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deckla | 1 other review | Jun 18, 2018 |

Neo-classicism by Hugh Honour

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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.