That Mighty Sculptor, Time

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.

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/01/1993
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.72h x 6.04w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780374523756

About the Author

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) wrote plays, stories, poems, and novels, notable Memoirs of Hadrian. She was the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise.

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