Marble [electronic resource]
Amalie Smith2020
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Amalie Smith ignites everyday encounters into sites of revelation and
metamorphosis Recently unearthed from the ground, Marble leaves her new lover in
Copenhagen and travels to Athens. The city is overflowing with colour, steam and
fragrance, cats cry like babies at night, the economic crisis is raging. In this
volatile landscape, Marble grasps the world by exploring its immediate surfaces.
Capturing specks of colour on ancient sculptures in the Acropolis Museum with an
infrared camera, she simultaneously traces the pioneering sculptor Anne Marie
Carl-Nielsen, who spent several months in the same place 110 years earlier. Far
away from her husband and children, Carl-Nielsen showed that Archaic sculptures
were originally painted in bright colours - a feat which meant defying Victorian
gender roles and jeopardising her marriage. Sensuous and electric, yet admirably
forensic in its approach to mineral life, Marble is a galvanizing novel about
the materials life is made of, abou...
Main title:
Marble [electronic resource] / Amalie Smith
Author:
Amalie Smith, Author
Imprint:
Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom : Lolli Editions, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (pages, 157, Bytes, 2555075.0)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781919609249
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
534191
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |