Flights of fancy and fear, ecstatic highs, dreadful falls, and beckoning skies: these are the images British filmmaker Peter Greenaway collects and dissects in Flying out of This World, the second volume in a series developed by the Louvre and devoted to innovative writing on the visual arts. As guest curator, Greenaway selected from the Louvre's collection of European prints and drawings ninety-one masterpieces that illustrate the human longing for flight. Greenaway's text, a compilation of brief commentaries that combine description, allusion, and interpretation, illuminate the images as depictions of flight desired and denied. Including works by Redon, Goya, Brueghel, Michelangelo, Mantegna, Rubens, Poussin, and Delacroix, this volume offers a combination of literary and visual art, of sight and insight.A pursuit through the Bible, classical mythology, cosmology, theology, etymology, ornithology, and meteorology, Flying out of This World is not just an illustrated history of imagined flight, but a meditation on its meaning as a metaphor for the human condition, caught between a weighty body and a soaring spirit.

Flying Out of this World (Parti-Pris)

Arts & Photography

Greenaway, Peter

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

Flights of fancy and fear, ecstatic highs, dreadful falls, and beckoning skies: these are the images British filmmaker Peter Greenaway collects and dissects in Flying out of This World, the second volume in a series developed by the Louvre and devoted to innovative writing on the visual arts. As guest curator, Greenaway selected from the Louvre's collection of European prints and drawings ninety-one masterpieces that illustrate the human longing for flight. Greenaway's text, a compilation of brief commentaries that combine description, allusion, and interpretation, illuminate the images as depictions of flight desired and denied. Including works by Redon, Goya, Brueghel, Michelangelo, Mantegna, Rubens, Poussin, and Delacroix, this volume offers a combination of literary and visual art, of sight and insight. A pursuit through the Bible, classical mythology, cosmology, theology, etymology, ornithology, and meteorology, Flying out of This World is not just an illustrated history of imagined flight, but a meditation on its meaning as a metaphor for the human condition, caught between a weighty body and a soaring spirit.

Flying Out of this World (The Parti-Pris Series)

A Zed and Two Noughts

Performing Arts

Faber&Faber

The Belly of an Architect

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

This story is like a story told by children to adults, and the adults are like the creations of children. A combination of innocence and experience and the first shocks of curiosity and comprehension.

Drowning by Numbers

Well-illustrated and useful guide to this influential and complicated film. 168 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

PROSPERO'S BOOKS

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Prospero's Books: A Film of the Shakespeare's The Tempest

Four Walls, Eight Windows

Drawing on his cinematographic knowledge, Greenaway exploits the use of lighting and projection to create an illuminating installation, One hundred light projections showed images relating to the history of the cinema on the facades of buildings at night. Includes author's list of the 1000 most interesting films since 1895.

The Stairs: Munich Projection (English and German Edition)

Schweeger, Elisabeth

Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Merrell Pub Ltd

A unique investigation of the icons of man-made flight, these illustrations by Greenaway explore man's impossible dream of flying.

Flying over Water = Volar Damunt L'Aigua

A story of love, lust and parenthood, born beneath a series of thunderstormsThis script by the acclaimed Welsh film director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway (born 1942) follows a love triangle between two men and a woman as they fall in and out of love and eventually procreate together amid a series of thunderstorms.

Peter Greenaway: Four Storms & Two Babies: A Love Story

Dis Voir

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