The Great Wall of China [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Daniel Schwartz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500542430 ISBN 13: 9780500542439

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2001

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Reseña del editor:

Over many years and many journeys, Daniel Schwartz has patiently and meticulously photographed one of mankind's supreme monuments - the Great Wall of China. Schwartz was the first foreigner ever to be allowed such privileged access to the Wall. From the border of North Korea he travelled westward through mountains and deserts and frozen grasslands to the borders of Central Asia. He said at the time: `I wanted to find out where the boundaries of the impossible lay and how close I could get to them.' Recently, China's new policy of openness encouraged him to revisit the Wall and to photograph areas that had been closed even to him on previous journeys. To place the photographs in context, the Chinese historian Luo Zhewen, who has dedicated his life to the study of the Great Wall, has written an essential brief history. Also included is Jorge Luis Borges's meditation `The Wall and the Books' and an extract from Franz Kafka's short story The Great Wall of China. This extraordinary project is at once a beautiful photographic essay, an intriguing conceptual art project, and a personal odyssey. Daniel Schwartz, with his profound and haunting vision of the Great Wall, has made not only a unique document but a book that is a work of art in itself.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Biografía del autor:

Daniel Schwartz is one of Switzerland's most established travel photographers.

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• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0500542430
• ISBN 13: 9780500542439
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216