Carrara: The Marble Quarries of Tuscany [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

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'Joel Leivick's photographs are really wonderful. They are beautiful and thoughtful, and have an extraordinarily ambiguous sense of space - there is a deliberated quality of cubist abstraction, a dialogue between the flat surface of the print and the depth of the actual, observed view that is new and special. Also, the photographs have a sense of purity that is entirely in harmony with their subject.' Sandra S. Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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“Joel Leivick’s photographs are really wonderful. They are beautiful and thoughtful, and have a sense of purity that is entirely in harmony with their subject.”—Sandra S. Phillips, Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Product Details

• Paperback: 84 pages
• Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804736375
• ISBN-13: 978-0804736374
• Product Dimensions: 13 x 11.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #94,735 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Creation and destruction, January 13, 2000

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This gorgeous book is about the centuries-long process of destroying a body of rock. Every picture shows a landscape or an interior white with the dust of Carrara's exceptionally pure marble; stonecutters white with the dust; even some pictures where you can't tell whether it's fog or dust in the air, or whether it's snow or dust on the rooftops. Carrara is the source of marble for some of the most revered works of sculpture in the Western canon: Michelangelo's David and the Pieta; Bernini's busts, St. Teresa, and hundreds more. To see it all as essentially an industrial process, and to see the people who have given their lives to quarrying this rock, is beautiful, bitter, and moving. There's also a great essay at the back by an Australian anthropologist, which is well worth the read.