Tibet: Through the Red Box.Tibet: Through the Red Box. Peter Sis. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Farrar Straus Giroux (212-741-6900), 1998. Illus., hardcover, 64 pp., $25.00. A wonderfully engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. , mysterious tale based on the author/artist's father's journals of many months wandering in Tibet filming a documentary. The text is replete with incidents and cultural commentaries. But it is the visualizations, many based on the Tibetan mandalas, which Sis fills with his interpretations of icons and mazes that offer bits of architecture, portraits of characters, landscapes, and mystic beings all designed to help us at least sense some of the emotional otherworldliness oth·er·world·ly adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of another world, especially a mystical or transcendental world: "The effect was dreamy, otherworldy" Gioia Diliberto. of a country so isolated from the rest of the world. Elementary school elementary school: see school. youngsters will feel some of the spookiness, like human-headed fish, but the book's value is enhanced by each reader's previous artistic experiences--hence a book very much for adults as well as K-12. |
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