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Curtis is a unique artist, an American original whose life and work have spanned and absorbed the art history of the entire twentieth century.
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When Mr Browser wishes for a brain sharpener for his class, he doesn't expect his wish to be granted; but soon the Brain Sharpeners arrive on the school field in their space craft. Class 8 are transformed into the cleverest children - all except Michael who has refused to be brainwashed and must save his class from the machinations of the Brain Sharpeners.
This book examines the relationship between modern sculpture and architecture in the mid-twentieth century, an interplay that has laid the ground for the semi-sculptural or semi-architectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and artists such as Dan Graham. The first half of the book looks at how the addition of sculpture enhanced several architectural projects, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion (1929) and Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook Campus (1934). The second half of the book uses several additional case studies, including Philip Johnson's sculpture court for New York's Museum of Modern Art (1953), to explore what architectural spaces can add to the sculpture they are designed to contain. Curtis argues that it was in the middle of the twentieth century, before sculptural and architectural forms began to converge, that the complementary nature of--though essential difference between--the two art forms began to clearly emerge: how figurative sculpture highlighted the modernist architectural experience and how the abstract qualities of that architecture imparted to sculpture a heightened role.
A wonderfully new approach to an age-old discussion. God: Stories offers insight and pleasure not only to the faithful but also to spiritual seekers -- and to those who simply love fine stories. Gathered by an esteemed editor of The Atlantic Monthly, these twenty-five dazzling short stories by eminent writers of varying persuasion, including Tobias Wolff, Louise Erdrich, Philip Roth, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and John Updike. deal with the question of faith -- both its presence and its absence.
Why pause and study this particular painting among so many others ranged on a gallery wall? Wonder, which Descartes called the first of the passions, is at play; it couples surprise with a wish to know more, the pleasurable promise that what is novel or rare may become familiar. This is a book about the aesthetics of wonder, about wonder as it figures in our relation to the visual world and to rare or new experiences. In three instructive instances--a pair of paintings by Cy Twombly, the famous problem of doubling the area of a square, and the history of attempts to explain rainbows--Philip Fisher examines the experience of wonder as it draws together pleasure, thinking, and the aesthetic fe...
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