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Autore di Skyscrapers
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Full of grace : encountering Mary in faith, art,… di Judith Dupre
Smuk "coffee-table" bog med et opslag til hver bygning. Og det starter med Washington Monumentet, der startede livet som en byggeskandale, der lå stille i over tyve år.
Smuk "coffee-table" bog med et opslag til hver bygning. Og det starter med Washington Monumentet, der startede livet som en byggeskandale, der lå stille i over tyve år.
To everyone's surprise, the Wall confesses he crumbles when he sees a mouse. A mouse!! In the the end there's a beautiful mice wedding in front of the Temple with everyone dancing, surrounded by the Sun, The cloud crying of happiness and the Wind keeping everyone cool.
Although I didn't see anything in the story that reflected Mayan culture, I loved the plot of the tale. So sweet!
Content, photos, and illustrations. 5*****
From the soaring Chrysler Building on the cover, the foggy skyline on the front endpaper, the half-tone of an upward gaze at the Flatiron building behind the table of contents, through a procession of fifty of the world's best-known skyscrapers to the tall silver and black of the back cover, one is almost overwhelmed by the massiveness and magnificent of these achievements in architecture. A page of historical notes and data for each entry provides the information one needs to trace the history of the art form. On the bottom right corner of each entry, small silhouettes compare the height of the building under consideration with that of the Sears Tower, the Empire State Building, and the Eiffel Tower. The chronology is divided into five sections: Ancient Roots (beginning with the Washington Monument), The Growth of New York City, Materials and Technology, Towers, and Visionary Cities. One cannot help leafing through the whole books, spotting all fifty in order before one returns to the text and the details.
But then here it is - right after the John Hancock Center in Chicago and the Trans-america Pyramid in San Francisco , just before the Sears Tower in Chicago and the John Hancock Tower in Boston, in the middle of the section modestly call Materials and Technology, there it stands again. Frankly, in this context, it looks rather plain, squarish in the cluttered landscape at its foot, not gleaming like John Hancock, not ornate like the Transamerica. The twin towers of the World Trade Center simply seem efficient, practical, quite safe. Looking at this page now, more than a decade after 9/11, one can only grieve.
And suddenly the whole book appears in a new perspective. Maybe a nostalgic look back on the
Sandra meets Victor (Frankenstein), whilst bar-tending at an art exhibition and immediately invites him to her off Broadway show, she is also a part time actress. It is inevitable that Sandra is going to fall head over heels for the mysterious stranger.
There is no horror here at all and I struggled to find a story. I found Sandra's character too insipid and Victor was barely a character at all.
The art style reminded me of the photo stories that were quite popular in teen magazines in the 80's, and that extremely popular a-ha video, you know the one, photos mixed with paint & charcoal drawings, mixed media.
I did not like the art at all in this graphic novel, and I am not certain that I would have liked it sixteen* years ago either, on the whole it just wasn't for me, on top of which I found the story to be tedious and melodramatic. If this novel was critically acclaimed several decades ago, I am not certain that it has withstood the passage of time.
* The edition published by Vertigo in 1998 is the only other edition I could find, I assume as 2014 is the 20th anniversary that there is another.
I received an ARC from the publishers for an honest review.
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http://eyesandearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/book-10.html
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