The Secret Lives of Stones - 'A real cabinet of curiosities' SUNDAY TIMES

Lapidarium sifts through the quarry spoil of history and uncovers gems . Judah''s pages are filled with eccentrics and inventors, with the obsessive pursuit of beauty, the hopeful constructions of belief and the thirst for progress and improvement. Her stories also bear out the tragic pattern of so much engagement with the natural world - what begins in wonder leads to greed andrapacious extraction. Behind the glitter of jewellers'' windows lies the shadowy back-rooms of polluted water sources, conflict diamonds and the mercury poisoning of artisanal goldworkers.>

About the author

HETTIE JUDAH is a curator, broadcaster and one of Britain's leading writers on art. She has a monthly column for Apollo magazine and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Frieze, Times Literary Supplement and BBC Radio 4's Front Row. Her recent books include Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood (Thames & Hudson, 2024). She lives in London.
www.hettiejudah.co.uk

Product details

• Authors: HETTIE JUDAH, Hettie Judah, Judah Hettie
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2024
• EAN: 9781529394955
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-9495-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, HISTORY / Historical Geography, History: earliest times to present day, General and world history, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Historical Geography