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Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (repost)

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Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (repost)

Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces By Robert Clark
Publisher: Dou ble day 2008 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 076792648X | EPUB | 2 MB

The Arno River flood that deluged Florence, Italy, in 1966—killing 33 people and damaging 14,000 works of art and countless books and antiques—frames this meditation on the relationship between art and life. Clark (River of the West) embarks first on a leisurely history of Florence's intertwined experience of great floods and great art, through the perceptions of Dante, Leonardo, E.M. Forster and other writers and artists. The world's rapt concern for Florence's cultural treasures contrasts sharply with its neglect of the city's inhabitants, Clark argues, offering his impressionistic account of the 1966 disaster as seen through the eyes of artists, photographers, volunteer mud angels who swarmed the city to help rescue its waterlogged art and Communist militants who organized relief for poor neighborhoods.