James Cameron has described Ghost in the Shell as "a stunning work of speculative fiction. . . the first to reach a level of literary excellence".
As ever, Barker disentangles questions of responsibility and guilt, class and personal loyalty, and the role of art in wartime to produce a stunning work of historical fiction.
The works range from a quirky, whimsical outdoor bronze of two muses, "Terpsichore and Euterpe" (1947), to the sleek, geometrically ordered "Books and Apple" (1957), a stunning work in silver whose cleverly abstracted subjects are nevertheless readily readable.
His 1923 postcard in the sale, a colored lithograph on cardboard stamped with his name, is a stunning work of graphic art in red, white, blue and black and a good illustration of Kandinsky's theories of color and form.
Helen Frick bought two adjacent town houses, demolished them, and hired John Russell Pope -- architect of the National Gallery and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington -- to design what remains a stunning work of side street architecture.
The result is a stunning work that pulls us in with its illusion of depth and suggests that the meteorites are in motion.
Sessler used a 5D Mark III to create his black and white masterpiece, editing the surreal footage to produce a visually stunning work that clocks in at just over three minutes long.
The result is embodied at the Prado in a stunning series of works, central to Renaissance art, by Mantegna, Correggio, Raphael, del Sarto, Titian and Veronese.
