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That Mighty Sculptor, Time
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar; Translated by Walter Kaiser
That Mighty Sculptor, Time
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On Sale
05/01/1993
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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.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374523756