{"id":5680,"date":"2010-08-17T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2018-09-23T23:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:48:25","slug":"nomade-a-man-of-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/nomade-a-man-of-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomade, A Man of Letters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nomade_antibes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5681\" title=\"nomade_antibes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nomade_antibes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nomade_antibes_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5682\" title=\"nomade_antibes_5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nomade_antibes_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nomade_antibes_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5683\" title=\"nomade_antibes_6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nomade_antibes_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Antibes, French Riviera<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sculpture is a creation by contemporary Catalan artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaumeplensa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jaume Plensa<\/a>, who lives and works in Barcelona and Paris. Born in 1955, Plensa studied art at the Escola Llotja and in the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. He is currently one of the most important sculptors on the contemporary art scene. Plensa made his name in the 1980s with simple, large forms made from cast iron. His work then evolved into sculptural installations using light, sound and language\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>( From\u00a0Yves Peters\u2019 serendipitous encounter with Nomade\u00a0during his vacation on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, from an article on The FontFeed). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">I&#8217;ve only been to Antibes once, during the sweltering hot summer of 1979 \u2014 a bit of an abstecher on a road trip from Switzerland to Spain with my wife Beverly. I\u2019ll admit, my most vivid memory is of the seemingly endless beaches populated with a preponderance of topless sunbathers \u2014 which I recall Bev found to be somewhat shocking (at first). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Thanks to Sal Randazzo for the link to Yves\u2019 post (sorry, link no longer works).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibes, French Riviera \u201cThis sculpture is a creation by contemporary Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, who lives and works in Barcelona and Paris. Born in 1955, Plensa studied art at the Escola Llotja and in the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. He is currently one of the most important sculptors on the contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,7,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15940,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions\/15940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}