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Perpetual motion : transforming shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne / Michel Jeanneret ; translated by Nidra Poller.
LIBRA BH162 .J4313 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeanneret, Michel.
- Series:
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
- Parallax
- Standardized Title:
- Perpetuum mobile. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, Modern--16th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Change--History--16th century.
- Change.
- Philosophy, Renaissance.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French
- Contents:
- 1 Universal Sway
- 1 Form and Force: Du Bartas 11
- 2 Natura naturans 29
- 3 Earth Changes: Leonardo da Vinci 50
- 2 Primeval Movement
- 4 Chaos 81
- 5 "Grotesques and Monstrosities" 104
- 3 Culture and Its Flow
- 6 "We Are Never in Ourselves" 147
- 7 The Hazards of Art: Le Roy 166
- 8 Language Inflections 175
- 4 Works in Progress
- 9 On Site 197
- 10 Geneses 217
- 5 Creative Reading
- 11 Reshuffling the Cards 241
- 12 Works to Be Done 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0801864801
- OCLC:
- 44420504
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