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Prune Nourry: Serendipity (Hardcover)
Prune Nourry; Text written by Francois Ansermet; Foreword by Tatyana Franck; Contributions by Ravinder Kaur, Clifford Ross, …
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The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth
and fifteenth centuries by spiritual master of the Orthodox
Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated
into Salvonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised
an influence far greater than that of any book other than the Bible
in the recent history of the Orthodox Church.
It has been a century since the first publication of the
Apokritikos extracts, which were written by a Greek philosopher of
the 3rd century (Adolf von Harnack, 1911). One hundred years later,
as part of the same series, there now follows a complete bilingual
edition of the entire Apokritikos. Along with a German translation,
this volume includes a newly reconstructed Greek text with critical
commentary. The Apokritikos contains one of the three most sweeping
anti-Christian polemics preserved from classical philosophy,
together with Makarios s refutation from the Christian side."
Since 1963 the seriesPatristische Texte und Studienhas been
publishing research findings coordinated by the Patristics
Commission, which today is a joint venture of all the German
Academies. The series is presenting editions, commentaries and
monographs on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers.
The work of the Japanese sculptor Toshimasa Kikuchi (born in 1979)
is somehow bewilderingly obvious. Trained in the restoration of
Buddhist statues, mastering to perfection the techniques of
classical Japanese statuary, he carves pure forms in wood -
geometric, hydrodynamic or figurative. His scientific repertory is
of all time (mathematics, engineering, natural history), but his
preferred materials and techniques are firmly grounded in tradition
(Japanese hinoki cypress, urushi lacquer, kinpaku gold leaf). The
installation he presents for his Carte Blanche at the musee Guimet
in Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in
lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the
celebrated photographs that Man Ray took of them. These abstract
forms, hanging from the ceiling like mobiles or laid on the floor
like devotional objects, take shape through a virtuosity and
craftsmanship seldom found in contemporary art. The book is
lavishly illustrated by the Japanese photographer Tadayuki
Minamoto, who was able to capture the magnificence of the
mathematical abstraction of the works of Kikuchi; by photographs
and paintings by Man Ray; and with fascinating mathematical objects
from the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, photographed by the French
photographer Bertrand Michau. It is essential reading for lovers of
surrealism and of the early years of twentieth-century abstraction
as well as for all who are intrigued by the close relationship
between art and mathematics.
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