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Flying Out of This World (Paperback)

By: Peter Greenaway (Author)

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"The Louvre recently invited a number of notable personalities to act as guest curators arranging special exhibitions. To illustrate the human longing for flight and the forces that work against it, the British film director Peter Greenaway selected 93 works, mostly drawings and paintings....Most of what Mr. Greenaway writes is insightful and the book is a pleasure to handle and read."

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Flights of fancy and fear, ecstatic highs, dreadful falls, and beckoning skies: these are the images British filmmaker Peter Greenaway collects and dissects in "Flying out of This World", the second volume in a series developed by the Louvre and devoted to innovative writing on the visual arts. As guest curator, Greenaway selected from the Louvre's collection of European prints and drawings ninety-one masterpieces that illustrate the human longing for flight. Greenaway's text, a compilation of brief commentaries that combine description, allusion, and interpretation, illuminate the images as depictions of flight desired and denied. Including works by Redon, Goya, Brueghel, Michelangelo, Mantegna, Rubens, Poussin, and Delacroix, this volume offers a combination of, literary and visual art, of sight and insight.
A pursuit through the "Bible", classical mythology, cosmology, theology, etymology, ornithology, and meteorology, "Flying out of This World" is not just an illustrated history of imagined flight, but a meditation on its meaning as a metaphor for the human condition, caught between a weighty body and a soaring spirit.

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