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Leap / Terry Tempest Williams.
Van Pelt Library BX8695.W547 A3 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Terry Tempest.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Williams, Terry Tempest--Religion.
- Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516.
- Williams, Terry Tempest.
- Spiritual life--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516. Garden of delights.
- Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2000]
- Summary:
- Seized by the beauty and mystery of Hieronymus Bosch's fifteenth-century Flemish masterpiece, The Garden of Delights, Terry Tempest Williams focuses her astute gaze on his medieval triptych as she would on a natural landscape. With spiritual candor, psychological immediacy, and exhilarating emotional intensity, she carries us into the world of Bosch's painting, uncovering the connections between his vision, the world it mirrors, and contemporary life.
- Approaching Paradise, Williams reenters the terrain of childhood, where the foundations of orthodoxy are built; Hell, in all its diabolical madness, allows her to reflect on the inherent dislocations of our lives; in The Garden, moving away from the dualities of Heaven and Hell, she sees personal engagement as its own form of prayer and celebrates the possibility of living faith right here on earth. And in Restoration, we meet two sisters, art restorers, who reveal their understanding of artistic vision.
- Leap is an unexpected pilgrimage through the landscape of a painting that continues to startle five hundred years after its creation. It is also an utterly original account of one woman's search for the place where faith, passion, and creativity converge. Finally, Leap captures the alchemical moment of imagination -- the flight from the real to the poetic.
- Contents:
- I Paradise 1
- II Hell 43
- III Earthly Delights 127
- IV Restoration 235.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327).
- ISBN:
- 0679432922
- OCLC:
- 42861567
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