Word: agricola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objects to preserve. The Sitting Printer, for example, is made from the back of an oak chair, a stool seat for a head and a typesetter's box, which Smith inherited when he took over another artist's studio, cast separately in bronze and then welded together. Agricola IX is one of a series Smith has done using bits of discarded farm implements, including parts from an abandoned buggy shop. For Smith, this work, which includes a pedal from a spring wagon, becomes as much a part of the landscape as trees or leaves...
...Aristotle to Balzac and Brillat-Savarin, from Dante and Dostoevsky to Thucydides and Thackeray. Invitation to Learning is the only network program in the U.S. to devote full half-hour discussions consistently to such books as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Aquinas' Being and Essence, and Agricola's De Re Metallica...