Sentences with phrase «ancient ziggurats»

This confusing world encompasses standard - issue toon realities (worlds of water and snow peopled by talking fish and bears) as well as more stylistically adventurous ones, such as a red desert which mixes ancient ziggurats with with the Mexican day of the dead, a forest grown within a malfunctioning robotic biosphere, and the vaguely steampunk - gothic homeland of Capy's kind, who fly airships shaped like top hats, furnished with plump armchairs.

Pearce is a good storyteller: tales ripple through the book about how the Libyans are creating a great artificial river in the Sahara, how the ancient ziggurat at Ur was saved from bombing in the recent Gulf War, and how a tribunal in Valencia has been resolving disputes over water allocation continuously since medieval times.

The works are presented on purpose built steps, bringing to mind the shape of an ancient ziggurat or a temple, while simultaneously looking at formal hierarchies of female bodies.

Not exact matches

Race across the Ziggurat in ancient Sumer to harvest barley, herd goats, and sacrifice to the great goddess Inanna.

The exhibition highlights their use of the ziggurat motif, an architectural form common to both the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica and to modern skyscrapers.

This exhibition will focus on the group's tamer but still visually grabbing Ziggurat Paintings, which were made between 1968 — 86 and play with the ancient Mesopotamian form.

A monumental architectural structure, the ziggurat reflects the artist's interest in pre-modern and non-western dwellings and spiritual spheres from ancient Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures.

An art historian might relate the blocky geometric structure of this piece, called «Four - Sided Pyramid,» to the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia — and to New York skyscrapers.

From the 1980s this often took the form of spatial components such as steps, doors, tunnels or shapes which resembled ziggurats, the ancient temple towers built up in successive stages.

An ancient Mesopotamian architectural structure of steps leading up to a temple, the ziggurat symbolizes as a link between humans and the gods.