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Da: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.LEFT COAST BOOKS
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Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 207 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 30 cm. English Edition. First published under title: Arts des Indiens d'Amerique du Nord. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner lightly bumped. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "The tipi, th…e feather headdress and the pipe of peace: such are the cliches representatives of a culture often confined to anecdotal notice for its 'crafts'. This volume takes us beyond all that. Archaeology, costume, weaving, pottery, basket making, painting and sculpture are all addressed here. The sculptural quality of the articles presented, their purity of line and expressive intensity, command the status of art. Penney's vivid account defines their spiritual and symbolic importrait Colour reproductions from the greatest US collections of Amerindian art are accompanied by period black and white photographs situating the various Indian cultures in their historic contexts." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Mound builders of the Midwest: the Hopewell culture, interactions and influences; Art of the Mississippi chiefdoms: an architecture of earth, symbols and rites; From the Eastern Woodlands to the Great Plains: dress-making, the domain of woman; Sculpture, the domain of men; Pictographs and paintings: the memory of the tribes; Canyons and deserts of the South-West; Pottery: a thousand years of history; Kachinas of the Hopi and Zuni; Navajo weaving and metalwork; Basketmakers of California; Pomo baskets; Makers and merchants; Making magic on the North-West coast: Ritual objects of the Tlingit shaman; the winter ceremonial; American Indian art in the twentieth century. Size: 4to.
Editore: Taschen, Cologne, 2000
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Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 96 pages; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "During the Renaissance, the great homosexuals, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Raphael, transformed the history of art, attaining to ever closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste. From their art, ambi…guous beings were born, half man, half woman; female breasts were planted on male busts and a young man's gaze peeped out beneath the eyelids of a Madonna. From his earliest youth, Michelangelo never ceased to suffer, and thereby to create. He attempted to reconcile the apparently conflicting forces that inhabited him: earthly passions and fear of God. Hence the edifice devoted to beauty, celestial and infernal alike, that Michelangelo raised to the glory of God. It has no equivalent nor descendance. His predecessors aspired to Heaven through faith alone; Michelangelo sought to rise through the contemplative exaltation of beauty. His passions found expression in the human body as it emerged from the Creator's hand. And they did so even on the ceiling of a papal chapel: the Sixtine. This exposed him to a chorus of derision from prudish critics, who accused him of exhibiting paganism in a place of religion, and who clothed his immodest Titans in painted 'breeches'. It was Michelangelo's curse to remain a colossus outside and apart from his time. It is the birthright of the comet to inspire fear and awe in the spectator. The spectacle of such glory can sear the tender eye." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
