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Photograph of The World Is My Book. The sculpted lintel above the Children’s Court at the Los Angeles Public Library.

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The World Is My Book

The sculpted lintel above the Children’s Court at the Los Angeles Public Library.

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The World Is My Book

Los Angeles Public Library · Children’s Court

The Mark Taper Auditorium doorway at the Los Angeles Public Library is titled The World Is My Book. Its lintel introduces the Children’s Court, where Lawrie’s sculpture turns reading, myth and imagination into an architectural setting for young visitors.

Los Angeles Public Library · Children’s Court

The World Is My Book

Vintage view of the Children’s Court entrance
Proteus
Galatea
The World Is My Book lintel
Narrative inscription at the Children’s Court doorway
Symbols on the caryatids
Mark Taper Auditorium doorway and bronze doors
The Husband and the Parrot
The Cow Jumped Over the Moon
Pegasus
St. George slaying the dragon
Zeus throwing lightning bolts
Caryatid at the Children’s Court doorway
Caryatid symbols
Caryatid detail
Caryatid detail
Caryatid symbol detail
Caryatid symbol detail
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