Free HYLAND Magazine Issues

Edition 16: Constant and Refreshing

CLICK ON ANY OF THESE IMAGES FOR A FREE STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION OF HYLAND, a digital lifestyle magazine featuring residential decoration, design, architecture, art, travel, fashion, cuisine, good works and reflections.

Issue link: http://digital.hylandmagazine.com/i/177765

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 105 of 214

Let's keep it real: Clemente makes complex work that, quite simply, gives pleasure. 4:20 where Jabal is described as 'the first to live in tents and raise sheep and goats." Nineteenth century theorists of architecture and ornament such as Gottfried Semper and Owen Jones postulated that tents, draperies and carpets—cloth, in other words— constituted the original hut or dwelling, nomadic or otherwise. The eminent architectural historian, Joseph Rykwert, explores both the romance and partial truth of these theories in the seminal book, On Adam's House in Paradise: the Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History. In any case, Clemente's triptych of tents draws us back to a paradisal past, real or imagined, certainly real enough in the collective unconscious. The first tent, Standing With Truth, takes its name from a poem by Kabir, the 15th century mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement, a widespread Hindu sect which, since the 14th century, eschews the caste system. Kabir was born in 1440, near Varanasi, to a Brahmin widow, then HYLAND

Articles in this issue

Archives of this issue

view archives of Free HYLAND Magazine Issues - Edition 16: Constant and Refreshing