| That Mighty Sculptor, Time Contributor(s): Yourcenar, Marguerite (Author), Kaiser, Walter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374523754 ISBN-13: 9780374523756 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1993 Annotation: This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | European - French |
| Dewey: 844.912 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.04" W x 8.72" (0.69 lbs) 240 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yourcenar, Marguerite: - Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) wrote plays, stories, poems, and novels, including the notable Memoirs of Hadrian. She was the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. |