That Mighty Sculptor, Time de Marguerite Yourcenar, Walter Kaiser (Translator) - 1993-05-01

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NY: The Noonday Press, 1995. 229pp. Translated by Walter Kaiser in collaboration with the author. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2nd Printing.. Paperback. Fine-.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Noonday Pr, 1993. 229 pgs. Essays.. Trade Paperback. As New.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: The Noonday Press, 1993. pp. 229. Wraps illustrated with a photo of a marble head of Antinouos. 'Like waves washing against a pebbled shore, her sentences soothe, then hypnotize; before long the sound of her voice--slightly weary, serenely wise--becomes that of Reason itself . . . [Her essays] display a moralist and critic of remarkable range and sympathy.'--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World. 'It goes without saying that we do not possess a single Greek statue in the state which its contemporaries knew it: we can barely discern, here and there on the hair of a Kore or a Kouros of the sixth century, the traces of reddish color, like palest henna, which attest to their pristine character of painted statues alive with the intense, almost terrifying life of mannequins and idols which also happen to be masterpieces of art. Those hard objects fashioned in imitation of the forms of organic life have, in their own way, undergone the equivalent of… Leer más

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good+. 1992. Paperback. 0374523754 . Trade Paperback. A Very Good++ condition, bright, tight & unmarked with minor cover wear. "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." ; 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.5 Inches; 229 pages .