Poems about Sculpture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781101907757)

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 Keats's Grecian urn and Shelley's "Ozymandias" to contemporary verse about Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelman's wind-borne hovering nets, the pieces in this collection convert the physical materials of the plastic arts--clay, wood, glass, marble, granite, bronze, and more--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.

Author: Murray Dewart
ISBN-10: 1101907754
ISBN-13: 9781101907757
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.30h x 4.30w x 0.80d