Read the poems. Roll the dice. Cut out the couplets to create your own poems and fortunes. Be prepared for the strange and mysterious.
This volume one of the only collections dedicated exclusively to the subject has been compiled with the assumption that a shared conceptual framework underpins the objects produced as part of the ritual of votive giving, and that by merit ...
In simple terms, it is an expression and evocation of faith. It is no sleight of hand that Adam Lee chose 'Votive' as the title of this book, the first major publication made in collaboration with the Australian artist.
But there is, as Irene Small points out, a notable dii-Terence between contemporary votive photos and sixteenth—century votive panel paintings. “With a photograph, one could no longer picture the agent of intercession.
By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship ...
This book analyses hundreds of votive body parts to examine how ideas about the human body changed throughout classical antiquity.
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, held at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from September 14, 2018 through January 6, 2019"--Colophon.
David Anderson (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1980) 49. See Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals; Ecce Homo, tr. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage Books, 1969) 68. See also Neal Krause, ...
Mouldmade terracotta heads of men, women and children were being produced in Italy from the fourth century BC. This book not only discusses the production, chronology, distribution, style and chemical composition of these heads, but also ...
Unapologetically yearning, this collection moves through three distinct sections, from the 'scabrous hope' of new love through painful eroticism and loss, and finally into the wide river of an open-ended spiritual question.
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