Description: Persia: Bridge of Turquoiseby Roloff Beny Essay and Anthology by Seyyed Hossein NasrPublished by Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1975. Printed in Italy. First Edition. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket with minor signs of shelf wear. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, quarto, 367 pages. Text pages on specially dyed Rusticas, illustrations on dull-coated enamel. Essay and Anthology by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, historical notes on the plates by Mitchell Crites. The 'Tughra' symbolic design for the title of the book 'Persia-Bridge of Turqoise' was created by Nasrollah Afjei in the style of royal monograms used by early Muslim rulers.Roloff Beny had a considerable reputation and exhibition record as the maker of progressive painting, drawing and printmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was recognized as one of the leading abstract artists of his day with works of the period exhibited and collected at that time by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Gallery of Canada, among others. His work in painting, drawing and prints is discussed in Roloff Beny Visual Journeys.His book To Every Thing There is a Season was presented to visiting heads of state during Canada's 1967 centennial celebration. In 1968 his book India was chosen by the Indian Government to celebrate the centenary of Gandhi's birth.Canada, as Beny remarked, had "no temples two thousand years old, no paths worn hard by passionate travelers."But the photographer soon found his way to those paths and temples in the course of "insatiable wanderings in Europe and Asia," and, above all, around the perimeter of the Mediterranean. Beny was in early days a protégé of Peggy Guggenheim and Herbert Read. The circle of friends around him—actors, artists, collectors, writers—included Laurence Olivier, Stephen Spender, Rose Macaulay, Bernard Berenson, Jean Cocteau, Henry Moore, and other makers of art and literature. His books have been published in America, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iran, and Japan.Beny was obsessed with the beauty of the world. He has been called "a poetic photographer"[5] and he was a passionate aesthete. His photographic journeys were recorded in a series of large-scale volumes which appeared over the years. Beny's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Yale University Art Gallery. "I see majestic ruins even in the architecture of the skies," he wrote in the Preface to his book, Pleasure of Ruins. Loc: C6StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackPERSIA IRAN 1957 First Edition Photographs Landscape Architecture Mosaic Tiles Persia: Bridge of Turquoiseby Roloff Beny Essay and Anthology by Seyyed Hossein NasrPublished by Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1975. Printed in Italy. First Edition. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket with minor signs of shelf wear. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, quarto, 367 pages. Text pages on specially dyed Rusticas, illustrations on dull-coated enamel. Essay and Anthology by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, historical notes on the plates by Mitchell Crites. The 'Tughra' symbolic design for the title of the book 'Persia-Bridge of Turqoise' was created by Nasrollah Afjei in the style of royal monograms used by early Muslim rulers.Roloff Beny had a considerable reputation and exhibition record as the maker of progressive painting, drawing and printmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was recognized as one of the leading abstract artists of his day with works of the period exhibited and collected at that time by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Gallery of Canada, among others. His work in painting, drawing and prints is discussed in Roloff Beny Visual Journeys.His book To Every Thing There is a Season was presented to visiting heads of state during Canada's 1967 centennial celebration. In 1968 his book India was chosen by the Indian Government to celebrate the centenary of Gandhi's birth.Canada, as Beny remarked, had "no temples two thousand years old, no paths worn hard by passionate travelers."But the photographer soon found his way to those paths and temples in the course of "insatiable wanderings in Europe and Asia," and, above all, around the perimeter of the Mediterranean. Beny was in early days a protégé of Peggy Guggenheim and Herbert Read. The circle of friends around him—actors, artists, collectors, writers—included Laurence Olivier, Stephen Spender, Rose Macaulay, Bernard Berenson, Jean Cocteau, Henry Moore, and other makers of art and literature. His books have been published in America, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iran, and Japan.Beny was obsessed with the beauty of the world. He has been called "a poetic photographer"[5] and he was a passionate aesthete. His photographic journeys were recorded in a series of large-scale volumes which appeared over the years. Beny's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Yale University Art Gallery. "I see majestic ruins even in the architecture of the skies," he wrote in the Preface to his book, Pleasure of Ruins. Loc: C6
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Number of Pages: 367
Topic: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Cultural History, Iran, Persia, History
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Era: 1970s
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ISBN: 0500240973
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Language: English
Publication Year: 1975
Book Title: Persia: Bridge of Turquoise
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Author: Roloff Beny, Essay and Anthology by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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