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Seeing
Venice: An Eye in Love
An inner travelogue
with 94 drawings
by Frederick
Franck
author of
The Zen of Seeing
and Fingers
Pointing Toward the Sacred
"Venice is so much more than canals, bridges, gondolas. It is an unbroken sequence of ever-changing moods; festive, frivolous, elegiac and melancholy, forever foreign yet totally intimate." --from Seeing Venice
Take a luminous journey deep into the heart of hidden Venice, with Frederick Franck as your guide. His quietly evocative drawings and descriptions bring to vivid life the city of islands, La Serenissima, the Queen of the Sea, "that most human of cities," Venice. Franck explores cafes, alleyways, and the myriad moods and characters of the Venetians, providing an enlivening glimpse into a city he sees as a microcosm of creation, "an immense and living indoor and outdoor studio."
"Frederick Frank is one of a rare and precious breed--an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul."
--Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life"Frederick Franck is that rarest of human beings, a true eclectic--in touch with the perennial...and with all his drawings, his beautiful, compassionate drawings!"
--Robert Aitken Roshi, author of Taking the Path of Zen
Frederick
Franck's sculpture and artwork are in the permanent collections of
The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Tokyo National Museum,
and other public and private collections. He is the author of over thirty
books, including The Zen of Seeing (Random House), and the award-winning
Pacem in Terris: A Love Story (Codhill), as well as an editor of
What Does it Mean to be Human (St. Martin's Press), recently translated
into Spanish and Chinese. He was recently honored with the World Citizenship
Award by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and at over ninety years of
age, he continues to be actively engaged in art, writing and the search
for meaning in this world.