Sentences with phrase «alchemical texts»

As Newman read old alchemical texts, he discovered that by the late 15th and early 16th centuries (the time of da Vinci and the beginning of the Renaissance), alchemists had refined not just mercury but also their core ideas about matter.

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Using chocolate, fat, felt, steel, signs, texts, and threads of alchemical connection Crotch re-stages Beuys» work from the gallery to the body, from the sculptor to the dancer, adapting abstract forms to express grief and loss.

In his often grandly scaled works, Kiefer intertwines a complex range of subjects, including alchemical treatises; Nordic, Greek, Egyptian, and early Christian mythology; and mystical Jewish texts, often relating such subjects to modern, particularly German, history.

Consisting of furniture covered with bronze blankets, on whose backs reveals drawings and text, traced and written, her objects combine multiple realities incorporating dreamlike states and alchemical properties, always based on nuanced, multifaceted layers of space and time.