Poems About Sculpture (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Poems About Sculpture (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form.

Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keatsâ€™s Grecian urn and Shelleyâ€™s â€œOzymandiasâ€ to contemporary verse about Maya Linâ€™s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelmanâ€™s wind-borne hovering nets, the pieces in this collection convert the physical materials of the plastic artsâ€”clay, wood, glass, marble, granite, bronze, and moreâ€”into lapidary lines of poetry. Whether the sculptures celebrated here commemorate love or war, objects or apparitions, forms human or divine, they have called forth evocative responses from a wide range of poets, including Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, Auden, and Plath. A compendium of dazzling examples of one art form reflecting on another, Poems About Sculpture is a treat for art lovers of all kinds.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781101907757
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2016-09-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101907757

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