Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight
Autor James Attleeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012
For many of us the moon, and the chill light it casts, are things we either ignore or take for granted. It wouldn't enter our heads therefore to set off around the world in search of moonlight. But, as James Attlee's eccentric quest proves, we couldn't be more wrong.
From Normandy to Naples, Wales to Arizona, Las Vegas to Japan, Attlee explores moonlight's many moods and meanings. Taking in the ancient and modern, art and literature, science and music, Nocturne travels far and deep to provide a portrait of an enigmatic light increasingly endangered in our over-illuminated world.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0141039310
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
James Attlee lives in Oxford and works in art publishing in London. He is the author of Isolarion: a Different Oxford Journey and the co-author, with Lisa Le Feuvre, of Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between.
Recenzii
A poetic and passionate story of light in darkness
Vagrant, erudite, frequently comical. A stylist of amazing wit and skill. A compendious, moving and impassioned guide
Gloriously multifaceted and engaging. A gorgeous, thoughtful book
Attlee is a true enthusiast, and is fascinated by, indeed loves, his subject. He writes beautifully and often thrillingly about the moon in all its - her? - aspects, and it will be a dull-minded reader who comes away from this book without a new or at least renewed regard for the extraordinary, silver satellite that is our world's constant companion
A wistful, fact-filled and esoteric treat
Cuprins
Sky Maps and Ghost Ships
Part One: Syzigy
A Three-Dog Night by the River
A Barefoot Galileo
Absorbed by Its Shadows
Earthshine
Eostre and a Paschal Moon
A White Horse and Mammoth Bones
Fear of the Dark
Darkness and the Desert: An Islamic Moon
Mussolini, the Madonna and Moonlight
Extollagers in the Valley of Vision: Memory, Moonlight and Samuel Palmer
Dark Adaption and the Eye of the Beholder
The Path of Totality
Adrift on the Iapetus Ocean
August Beach Moon, Normandy
Immaculate Conceptions and Transparent Moons
Let’s Murder the Moonlight! Futurists and the Moon
The Agency of the Night
Beyond the Gateless Gate: September Kyoto Moon
Cats’ Eyes and a McDonald’s Moon
The Alarming Mountain: Naples, Vesuvius and the Moon
Part Four: Lunada
From Vegas to Vega: American Moon
The Moon and the Standing People
Part Five: Mondschein
Raking the Shadows: A Romantic Moon
Part Six: Thamesis
Through Midnight Streets: The Thames and a London Moon
Blue Moon on Stonewall Hill