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Cactus

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TitleCactus

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SubjectsCactusPlants in artNature in art

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Description: From Lascaux to Brooklyn

From Lascaux to Brooklyn

What do the cave paintings of Lascaux have in common with ... … The Tower of Pisa? A Romanesque campanile on the Arno, built in the twelfth century of white marble, 293 steps to the top. Its oblique orientation, for which it is famous, is 14 feet off the perpendicular. Ironically, it is this very aberration that produces so dynamic a composition in relation to its surrounding buildings. But is it the formal composition, the relations between diagonal and vertical elements, or the perception of …

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 1996 by Paul Rand

Related print edition pages: pp.2-26

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00052.003

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Chapter subject tags:Graphic artsDesignAestheticsLascaux Cave (France)

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