This study links the patronage of the arts to the need of the person, who has benifited from his society, to give back the good he has received. From the first Babylonian, Chinese, Greek and Roman cultures through the Dark and Middle Ages to the industrial revolution and modern times, the author traces the effect of king and church, noble and merchant on funding the arts - and the growth of the artist from slave and labourer to craftsman and master. The author also wrote the novel "The Breaking of Bumbo" and the biographies of Jack London and John Ford, "The Albion Trilogy" and "War Like a Wasp".
- ISBN10 1856190145
- ISBN13 9781856190145
- Publish Date 1 October 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English