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Six Facets of Light
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Books > Gift Books > Gift Books
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| Author/Artist: |
ANN WROE |
| ISBN / ID: |
9781784708375 |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books |
| Binding: |
PAPERBACK |
| Price: |
AU$35.00 |
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| Description: |
Six Facets of Light is a series of meditations on this most elusive and alluring feature of human life. Set mostly on the Downs and coastline of East Sussex, the most luminous part of England, it interweaves a walker's experiences of light in Nature with the observations, jottings and thoughts of a dozen writers and painters - and some scientists - who have wrestled to define and understand light. From Hopkins to Turner, Coleridge to Whitman, Fra Angelico to Newton, Ravilious to Dante, the mystery of light is teased out and pondered on. Some of the results are surprising.
By using mostly notebooks and sketchbooks, this book becomes a portrait of the transitoriness, randomness, swiftness, frustrations and quicksilver beauty that are the essence of light. It is a work to be enjoyed, pondered over, engaged with, provoked by; to be opened to bring that outside radiance within four dark town walls. |
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