Author: CARTER BROWN
Title: Rings, five passions in World Art
Description: Abrams, High Museum of Art 1996. With 150 colorplates. With an essay by Jennifer Montague of the Warburg Institute London. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. New copy ¶ Organized according to an innovative concept - exploring the power of art to evoke fundamental human emotions - Rings: Five Passions in World Art brings together an extraordinary assemblage of artworks spanning seven millennia and the principal regions of the world. The 129 masterworks gathered here have been organized to represent five interlocking passions that have fascinated artists the world over: Love in all its many forms, physical, spousal, and parental, its joyous as well as heartbreaking aspects; Anguish, of loss, oppression, physical suffering, and death; Awe, of nature and the supernatural, including expressions of inwardness and spiritual transcendence; Triumph, the thrill of victory in religious, military, and athletic contexts; and Joy, in creation, in aesthetic, visual delight, in music, and in dance. Catalogue of the exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta for the Olympic Games 1996 Olympic Arts Festival, on the occasion of the Centennial of the Modern Olympic Games

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