Calm Things: Essays
The term still life did not come into being until 1650. The French adopted the term nature morte, dead nature, around 1750. The painter de Chirico was said to have preferred the Italian term vita... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0978491734
ISBN13:9780978491734
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Palimpsest Press
Length:85 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Calm indeed
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is a beautiful book of essays from a modern-day contemplative weaving loving threads of awareness through family and art. The title, Calm things, is taken from the Japanese for still life. And since Lemay's husband Robert is a still life artist (his art is on the cover), the explorations are daily and personal. I highly recommend it.
A book to savour
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is a book of such style and depth that it's best not to read all the essays at once. Read one, and give it a day or two to work its magic on you. Then to the next and so on. You will be rewarded.
Serene and beautiful...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This volume of essays provides a unique view of domestic life and our relationship to the mundane. Through Lemay's eyes, the prosaic becomes poetic and the boring becomes beautiful. A thoroughly engaging work!
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