Angels of Pompeii, Photographs by Stephen Brigidi, Poetry by Robert Bly, [When his fascination with archaeology and history took Brigidi to Pompeii for the first time, he was captivated by the luminous frescoes of angels and the crumbling walls around them remaining long after the destruction by Vesuvius in 79AD and felt a bonding with his ancestry. Working with his photographs he began to feel the "poetry of the angels" could best be communicated by another artist who also perceived their message. Robert Bly, the noted poet, was that person, finishing poems he had started twenty years earlier and found related and creating new ones, so establishing a dialogue with the photographer.],

Librería

Crouch Rare Books (GB)

Inventario del vendedor #

8373

Título

Angels of Pompeii, Photographs by Stephen Brigidi, Poetry by Robert Bly, [When his fascination with archaeology and history took Brigidi to Pompeii for the first time, he was captivated by the luminous frescoes of angels and the crumbling walls around them remaining long after the destruction by Vesuvius in 79AD and felt a bonding with his ancestry. Working with his photographs he began to feel the "poetry of the angels" could best be communicated by another artist who also perceived their message. Robert Bly, the noted poet, was that person, finishing poems he had started twenty years earlier and found related and creating new ones, so establishing a dialogue with the photographer.],

Autor

Brigidi & Bly,

Formato/Encuadernación

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Estado del libro

Usado

Editorial

Ballantine Books, New York, 1992,

Palabras clave

Classical Greek and Roman Literature and Civilisation

Catálogos del vendedor

Classical Greek and Roman Literature, Classical Civilisation, Latin;

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