Art of the Rockface
The Fascination of Stone
Moore, Andrew (EDT)
Larken, Nigel (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
This book examines the principal ways by which artists have explored the fascination and meaning of stone. At times a belief in the sacred has informed artists desire to make art, often making symbols for worship. Today artists are among those inspired to
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This book examines the principal ways by which artists have explored the fascination and meaning of stone. At times a belief in the sacred has informed artists’ desire to make art, often making symbols for worship. Today artists are among those inspired to explore form and meaning in ways that invite a contemplative and sometimes explicit spiritual response. Equally, other non-spiritual themes remain common to different cultures, notably those of study or transformation, myth and memory, all fundamental to our sense of ourselves.
Conceived as a companion to the exhibition Art at the Rockface (Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery and the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, 2006-7), six thematic chapters echo those of the exhibition.
AUTHOR BIO
Andrew Moore is Keeper of Art and Nigel Larkin is Curator (Geology) of the Natural History Department at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. Specialist contributing authors include Francesca Altman, Curator of Decorative Arts, Norma Watt (British Watercolours) and Giorgia Bottinelli and Nicholas Thornton (Modern and Contemporary Art).
BOOK EXCERPTS
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0856676128
ISBN(13-digit): 9780856676123
Dewey Decimal: 704
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 96
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