Few sensations are as impressive as a crowded stadium fully immersed in art, and voluminous emotions expressed during the Legends concert at times seemed to levitate the Bowl.
A few years ago, I helped lead a ship-based expedition along south Alaska during which several scientists and noted artists documented and made art from the voluminous plastic trash that washes ashore even there.
"Dimension" is, perhaps, the key word here: originally an academic – he taught at Manchester University, and was the Slade professor at Oxford when still in his early 30s – Penny's writings on art have been voluminous: up until his appointment by the National Gallery he was a steady contributor to the London Review of Books, and he still writes fairly regularly for the Burlington Magazine.
There is voluminous literature on success rates in ART yet few studies also report the number of patients opting not to undergo ART, which undermines the research base.
Gordon Liu, a longtime star in Hong Kong martial-arts movies, wears a voluminous, wavy beard and enormous eyebrows, all snowy white, which make him look like an animated Chinatown doll, and when he whips his hand through his beard, in mandarin dismissal of the Bride's abilities, he seems not powerful but ridiculous, a prancing little snit.
He kept meticulous records of each artwork purchased, its seller and its price, and channeled his creative instincts into voluminous personal diaries detailing his encounters with art and artists.
But how many of the estimated 10,000 to 100,000 works of museum quality that are still missing may have found their way into the country through Customs and the mails through Latin America, Canada or other channels has long remained uncharted despite State Department reports in the 1940's and 50's by a zealous art tracker, Ardelia Hall, and voluminous additional documentation.
Which is as it should be, since the real reason to read this book has nothing to do with speculation about van Gogh's death, but with the voluminous chronicle it provides of his life and art, and the alchemy between them.
His artist's call — the entreaty that party promoters e-mail to names in their voluminous address books — was typically enticing: "We are seeking art projects, performers, activities, production crew and volunteers of all kinds," it read in part.
A taxonomic expert on land snails of the Bahamas, Gould's encyclopedic learning (and voluminous writing) extended from the history and philosophy of science to art and literature to baseball.
