Word: sumer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by Andre Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by civilized...
...Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by man in his first major civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Under the general editorship of André Malraux, Sumer is the panoramic premiere of some 40 volumes that promise to reduce the celebrated "Museum Without Walls" to paper...
...Carolingian art that flourished around Autun; by the time the $7,000,000 project is complete, virtually every place and period will have been covered. With six publishing houses in various countries involved, each volume will appear in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Munich, London, New York and eventually Tokyo. For Sumer, Malraux himself chose the 557 black-and-white and color illustrations, often sending photographers back to shoot a particular work for a second time. Once Malraux was satisfied, the photographs were dispatched to the various publishers in specially upholstered, hermetically sealed trucks that were ordered to travel no faster than...
Constant Symbols. It was logical that The Arts of Mankind should begin with Sumer, for it was there, in lower Mesopotamia-the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers-that the world's first major civilization was born. The book might have degenerated into a dry catalogue of archaeological finds; but the author of the text, André Parrot, a chief curator of the Louvre, is happily free from fustiness. Text and illustrations have been carefully synchronized: what the eye reads, it can also see at the same instant...
...they themselves were in a trance. When it came to worship, all distinctions between rich and poor vanished, and the civilization was getting old before the individual presumed to proclaim himself. Even the greatest warrior hero, Sargon, left no known portrait behind him, and all the grand viziers of Sumer were made to look almost exactly alike...