That Mighty Sculptor, Time
| Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1993-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780374523756 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0374523754 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (754 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis That Mighty Sculptor, Time by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book That Mighty Sculptor, Time written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.