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Item Number: 119329
Title: Flight and the Artistic Imagination
Author: Smiles, Sam
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907372377
Description: London: Compton Verney in association with Paul Holberton, 2012. 26cm., pbk., 96pp., 59 illus., most in color. Exhibition held at Compton Verney, Warwickshire. Summary: This book examines the innate human desire to transcend the limitations of physiology and gravity – and to fly. Through an intriguing combination of paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints and video, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, José Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Paul Nash, Peter Lanyon and Hiraki Sawa, the reader will be provided with a unique overview of artists' creative responses to flight, from the earliest imaginings to an era in which space travel has allowed us to glimpse other worlds.
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