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Author: Angus Trumble
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.404kg
ISBN: 9780374154981
ISBN 10: 0374154988
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 11 May 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Praise for The Finger [A] cheerfully encompassing natural, cultural, and artistic survey of the finger. Trumble is at once ferociously comprehensive and silly . . . This is the sort of exuberant nonfiction in which you learn something surprising on every page, and not only does Trumble amass a great wealth of finger facts, his interpretations are deft and pleasing in their acuity, and his delight in the entire endeavor is contagious. --Donna Seaman, Booklist An adept cultural tour of our fingers . . . Intelligent, passionate and amusing. -- Kirkus Reviews [Trumble] blends art history, anatomy, and etymology in this analysis of finger lore . . . This prodigiously researched work offers many gold nuggets of wisdom. -- Publishers Weekly Praise for A Brief History of the Smile <br><br> A charming scholarly analysis of simpers and grins across space and time. -- The Boston Globe
Praise for The Finger :  “[A] cheerfully encompassing natural, cultural, and artistic survey of the finger. Trumble is at once ferociously comprehensive and silly . . . This is the sort of exuberant nonfiction in which you learn something surprising on every page, and not only does Trumble amass a great wealth of finger facts, his interpretations are deft and pleasing in their acuity, and his delight in the entire endeavor is contagious.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist  “An adept cultural tour of our fingers . . . Intelligent, passionate and amusing.” — Kirkus Reviews  “[Trumble] blends art history, anatomy, and etymology in this analysis of finger lore . . . This prodigiously researched work offers many gold nuggets of wisdom.” — Publishers Weekly  Praise for A Brief History of the Smile : <br>“A charming scholarly analysis of simpers and grins across space and time.” — The Boston Globe
Author Information
Angus Trumble is the youngest of four brothers and was born and raised in Victoria, Australia. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, and of New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 1994-95. From 1996 to 2001 he was Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, and since 2003 has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.
