Word: bas
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...that outshone anything produced in what was to become Indo-China. The great temple of Angkor Wat, still Cambodia's most admired show place, was their work, but it and the other ruins of Angkor are so dramatic and overwhelming that the individual pieces of sculpture and bas-relief tend to get swallowed up. It is the virtue of the Asia House show that the individual pieces can assert themselves and be evaluated on their...
...attempt to save the impressive, rock-cut Temple of Abu Simbel near the southern border of Egypt, where for 3,000 years four colossal figures of Pharaoh Ramses II have looked out imperturbably over the Nile. Cut into the living rock are great chambers and corridors decorated with spirited bas-reliefs of Ramses' victories...
...longtime admirer of the durability of classic Greek forms, Gibbings grew increasingly disenchanted with the coldness and built-in "artificial obsolescence" of most modern furniture. Poking through museums and private art collections all over the U.S. and Europe, he cribbed ideas from the drawings on ancient Greek pottery and bas-reliefs. This week in Athens, a new line of classically inspired furniture based on Gibbings' research into the Greece of 25 centuries ago went on display in the form of klismoi (chairs), difroi (stools), and trapezia (tables...
...University of Chicago, was at work at the site of the holy city of Nippur, the seat of Enlil, god of the elements. There, only 100 miles south of Baghdad, it has uncovered perhaps the finest Sumerian find in 25 years-more than 50 ritual objects, vases, bas-reliefs and statues of the third millennium B.C. (see color...
Other tourists follow a different vision: that of the slender, small-boned and submissive women of the East who have long haunted the imagination of the West. They are visible in the statuary, paintings and bas-reliefs of a thousand temples, in the ceremonial dancers who weave their intricate and flowing patterns in palace courtyards, in shops and streets and paddies, or bathing with modest nudity in roadside canals. Most famed are the tawny bare beauties of Bali and the tiny, remote girls of Solo in Indonesia. For those who wish to pursue the investigation more intimately, Manila...