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Carrara

ISBN: 9781930066984 | 1930066988
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Pub. Date: 3/15/2009

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SummaryAuthor Biography
The legendary Cava di Gioia quarry in Carrara, Italy, was the source of the luminous white marble used by Michelangelo, Bernini, Henry Moore, and other renowned sculptors.Carrara, a volume of stunning photographs by William Wylie, reveals that the beauty of the quarry itself can be as alluring as the sculptures carved from its stone. Wylie is the first photographer to document Cava di Gioia since Ilario Besi, early in the twentieth century. For six years, Wylie photographed the changing landscape of the quarry, and his images capture the intense physical scale of the site, the dramatic setting, and the character of the stonecutters, orcavatori, who have worked the quarry for generations. Wylie's astonishing photographs present a remarkable panorama carved by more than twenty centuries of excavation. As well, his images of the stonecutters are sensitive portraits of men shaped by their occupation, toughened and enlivened by their work. The photographs ofCarrarabring to life the hitherto unseen beauty of a land better known for its resources than its distinctive beauty.

William Wylie is associate professor of art at the University of Virginia, and the author of Stillwater and Riverwalk: Explorations Along the Cache LA Poudre River. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian Museum of American Arts, among others.



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