Next
Dinesh

Dinesh club

Posted: 26 Dec 2021

Taken: 26 Dec 2021

0 favorites     1 comment    19 visits

Keywords

Turtle •
Coyle Avenue •
Coyle Road •
Carmichael •
California •
Sacramento •
Excerpt •
HISTORY OF BEAUTY •
Umberto Eco •
Author •

Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
All rights reserved
19 visits

Turtle

Turtle
Comments
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
If a turtle is pleasing to the eye, then the turtle reproduced by a great sculptor possesses a symbolic capacity that no real turtle has ever had; and this was known even to Greek sculptors. But for the Decadent the process was a different one. Des Esseintes chooses to place a turtle on a light-colored carpet in order to obtain a contrast between the golden and silvery hues of the weave and the raw sienna tones of the animal’s carapace. But the combination does not satisfy him and he has the turtle’s back encrusted with precious stones of many different colours, thus composing a dazzling arabesque, which irradiates light “like a Visigothic targe inlaid with shining scales, the handiwork of some Barbaric craftsman.” . . . Page 342

HISTORY OF BEAUTY
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

Sign-in to write a comment.