Marcia Lippman: Sacred Encounter(c

by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison and bell hooks

The grand palaces and princely villas of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynastyNymphenburg, Schleissheim, the vast Residenzschloss in Munich, and othersimpress visitors with their great halls and intimate cabinets, dramatic stairhalls and seemingly endless rows of sumptuously decorated rooms. But these dazzling residences did not exist solely to delight the eye. In The Utility of Splendor, Samuel John Klingensmith discusses how, over the years, successive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3908163269
• ISBN13: 9783908163268
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Edition Stemmle
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.6" x 12.9"

Customer Reviews

A luminous movie

This work is like encountering a strange film which, after a while seems not to be a film at all but an experience you are having, a kind of a journey that you don't remember setting out on. It takes you through England, Bali, Cambodia, Italy, through time, through light. In the end, as with all good journeys, you are someplace else and you are a little different, though in ways you can't describe. That's what is so great about this book; it takes you someplace in a way that lies outside summation.