Flesh & Stone
by Edward Lucie-Smith
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Author: Edward Lucie-SmithEdition: Hardcover
Audio: French (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000
ISBN: 189326310X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Ipso Facto
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Book Review: Art from a new vantage
Summary: 4 Stars
Not only is Edward Lucie-Smith one of our more important art historians today and undoubtedly the most published (!), he is one of the more creative thinkers in bringing all of the art world to the public. In this volume he juxtaposes sculpture from all ages with photographs that seem as timeless as the stone bodies he emulates. The photography is his own, and though we have seen incidental works by him in other volumes, this essay is the first to my knowledge to extensively survey his output. The lighting, the angles, the cropping of the images all provide the viewer with an interpretive stance. Lucie-Smith does not settle for suggestions - he makes us work to understand the beauty of line. At times I see the surface of the images of his madels as too grainy for reproduction, but exposure to his previous thoughts and treatises assure that he knows exactly what he is doing. This is a very different - and welcome - take on the relationshp of sculpture and photography from the ever inventive Lucie-Smith.
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