That Mighty Sculptor, Time
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....
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374523756 (0374523754)
Publish date: May 1st 1993
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Art,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature
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