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Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

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As a broadcaster she can been heard (and sometimes seen) on programmes including BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Art That Made Us. Following publication of her 2020 study on the impact of motherhood on artists’ careers, in 2021 she worked with a group of artists to draw up the manifesto How Not To Exclude Artist Parents, now available in 15 languages.

From the Taiwanese national treasure known as the Meat-Shaped Stone to Malta’s prehistoric “fat lady” temples carved in globigerina limestone to the amethyst crystals still believed to have healing powers, Lapidarium is a jewel box of sixty far-flung stones and the stories that accompany them. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She weaves stone through human history showing us how we gave different types of stone the power of royalty and worship. Hettie Judah is chief art critic on the British daily paper The i, a regular contributor to The Guardian’s arts pages, and a columnist for Apollo magazine.Would 100000% recommend it even if you're not the biggest geology enthusiast, this has to be one of my fave books of all time. It's got history, art, science, anthropology, geology, archaeology, history of fashion, religion, culture, folklore, industrial history, and so much more. The earliest scientists ground and processed minerals in a centuries-long quest for a mythic stone that would prolong human life.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There is a picture of each stone at the beginning of each chapter and the page edges are tinted with the colour of the respective stone. Her stories also bear out the tragic pattern of so much engagement with the natural world - what begins in wonder leads to greed andrapacious extraction. Hettie Judah is an art historian, so this book about minerals and precious stones is not written from a scientific perspective. Our advancement as a species came about by forging stone tools even now the Industrial Revolution was possible because of coal.Each stone is given a place in history like a snug setting and paced within the cultural context of its impact. Hettie Judah breaks her book down by types of stones into these categories;Stones and Powers, Sacred Stones, Stones and Stories, Stone Technology, Shapes in Stones and Living Stones. A fascinating history of stones and the surprising ways they have - and continue to - shape, influence and inspire us, in a beautiful volume. This book talks a lot about the history of stones, how they came to be, their presence in geological and human history, and culture.

I wanted to love it – I think there should be loads of books encouraging us to reconnect with the natural world, to come away with some general knowledge about our planet and our surroundings and how it's shaped human civilisation at large.years ago Babylonians constructed lapidaries – books that tried to pin down the magical secrets of rocks.

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