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Six Facets Of Light by Ann Wroe (Hardcover, 2016)

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Six Facets Of Light, Wroe, Ann, Good Condition Book. Title: Six Facets Of Light. Weight : 0.86 kg. Publication Date : 2016-04-07. List Price : 25. ISBN : 1910702323. Genre : Literary Essays. EAN : 9781910702321.

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'She's a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.' Hilary Mantel A Spectator Book of the Year Goethe claimed to know what light was. Galileo and Einstein both confessed they didn't. On the essential nature of light, and how it operates, the scientific jury is still out. There is still time, therefore, to listen to painters and poets on the subject. They, after all, spend their lives pursuing light and trying to tie it down. Six Facets of Light is a series of meditations on this most elusive and alluring feature of human life. Set mostly on the Downs and coastline of East Sussex, the most luminous part of England, it interweaves a walker's experiences of light in Nature with the observations, jottings and thoughts of a dozen writers and painters - and some scientists - who have wrestled to define and understand light. From Hopkins to Turner, Coleridge to Whitman, Fra Angelico to Newton, Ravilious to Dante, the mystery of light is teased out and pondered on. Some of the results are surprising. By using mostly notebooks and sketchbooks, this book becomes a portrait of the transitoriness, randomness, swiftness, frustrations and quicksilver beauty that are the essence of light. It is a work to be enjoyed, pondered over, engaged with, provoked by; to be packed in the rucksack of every walker heading for the sea or the hills, or to be opened to bring that outside radiance within four dark town walls.

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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9781910702321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221786559

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Book Title
Six Facets of Light
Author
Ann Wroe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy, Literary Theory, Physics
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Art & Culture
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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219mm
Item Width
172mm
Item Weight
829g

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Ann Wroe
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by johnbernard4610 May, 2016
A quality piece of writing.
An admirable book, written to celebrate the quality of light on the south downs and the attempts of several artists to capture its elusive charm. The work of Ravilious features strongly, this being my main reason for buying the book, but others like Palmer, and Turner are considered too. Ann Wroe weaves together quotes from a multitude of sources to illustrate her theme and introduces her own experiences of this special place. A wonderful piece of scholarship and erudition.
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