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The Curves of Time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer.
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The book opens with the statement: I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line hard and infleible created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country in the sinuousness of its rivers in the waves of the ocean and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe the curved universe of Einstein"."
Bib. Number0019988
The Curves of Time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer.
Author/EditorNIEMEYER Oscar.
PublisherPhaidon
Place PublishedLondon.
Year2000
Date & Collation192pp.Illus.Chronology.Index.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationFirst published in Portuguese by Editora Revan. Translated from the Portuguese by Izabel Murat Burbridge. Memoirs of the Brazilian architect born in 1907. Lists Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth as artists whom he admired, along with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Charles Despiau, Aristide Maillol, and Alberto Giacometti.The book opens with the statement: I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line hard and infleible created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country in the sinuousness of its rivers in the waves of the ocean and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe the curved universe of Einstein"."