Bibliograph

The lost carving, a journey to the heart of making, David Esterly

Type

Label

The lost carving, a journey to the heart of making, David Esterly

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lost carving

Oclc number

793726656

Responsibility statement

David Esterly

Sub title

a journey to the heart of making

Summary

Recounts the story of the author's career as a woodcarver and traces the challenging and philosophically passionate year spent replacing a Grinling Gibbons masterpiece that was destroyed in a fire at Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace

Table Of Contents

A metaphor for everything -- The use of time is fate -- If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise -- The fascination of what's difficult -- The art that arrives even to deception -- Begin as a god, end as a slave -- The thinking of the body -- Meaning isn't the meaning -- After

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