ARTIST: Lyle Gomes
PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press,
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DATE: 2005.
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DESCRIPTION: Photographs by Lyle Gomes, intro. by Denis Cosgrove, interview with Gomes by Karen Sinsheimer. xvi, 82 pages, 60 photos, oblong octavo (8vo) (7 3/4 x 11 1/4"), hardcover dark blue cloth silver text on spine, dustjacket.. In Imagining Eden the photographer Lyle Gomes observes landscapes that represent the idea of locus amoenus--the pleasant place. The tradition of locus amoenus goes back to the idyllic descriptions of fictional locations, often called Arcadia, in the writings of Sappho, Apollonius, and Virgil, in the imagined period of the Golden Age.
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CONDITION: Very good condition.
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