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OverviewScientific knowledge and televised travel to the moon have not entirely diminished human fascination with our closest neighbor in space. Quest for the Moon and Other Stories represents the humanistic and scientific flights of fancy and the resultant images captured by cameras across a century of imagination and discovery. These photographic images from the Quest for the Moon exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, were selected to convey the qualities of beauty, wonder, and artistry . . . that have stimulated our fascination with the moon and propelled our quest to reach it, notes Anne Wilkes Tucker in her introduction. Selected images include evocative nineteenth-century photographic views of the moon, such as a ghostly 1852 daguerreotype. Twentieth-century images include the upturned faces of Soviet citizens greeting Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth; space walks; the lunar surface; and eerie juxtapositions of space, light, and objects like the Hubble telescope in full profile. A final section recalls the spiritual link humans forged with astronomical objects before space travel enabled a physical link. The text provides contextual background for each photographic image. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anne Wilkes Tucker , Anne Wilkes TuckerPublisher: Texas A & M University Press Imprint: Texas A & M University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.80cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.313kg ISBN: 9780890900659ISBN 10: 0890900655 Pages: 60 Publication Date: 30 July 1985 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAnne Wilkes Tucker is Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Dennis Ivy is a Houston-based photographer and master printer. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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