Mapping Stone |
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| Author:
| Vangelisti, Paul
Phillips, Dennis |
| ISBN: | 978-88-7490-085-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | Seismicity Editions
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.00 |
Book Description:
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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. With the work of artists William Xerra and Courtney Gregg, and poets Dennis Phillips and Paul Vangelisti, MAPPING STONE explores the "statue stele" in the Lunigiana region of Italy. Dating from the third millennium B.C. through the centuries preceding Romanization, these late neolithic images of humans sculpted in stone remain highly evocative traces of a grand religious culture among the Apennine Liguri, the people of the Magra River valley and its...
More DescriptionLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. With the work of artists William Xerra and Courtney Gregg, and poets Dennis Phillips and Paul Vangelisti, MAPPING STONE explores the "statue stele" in the Lunigiana region of Italy. Dating from the third millennium B.C. through the centuries preceding Romanization, these late neolithic images of humans sculpted in stone remain highly evocative traces of a grand religious culture among the Apennine Liguri, the people of the Magra River valley and its tributaries. MAPPING STONE is the ultimate translation, not simply spanning five thousand years of human history, but continents and cultures that on first sight may appear dynamically different.