Short Life in a Strange World Birth to Death in 42 Panels

Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes , an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist's work, and a moving and intimate memoir. In 2012, facing the death of his father and impending fatherhood, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down and look at--in situ--every painting still in existence by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the most influential and important artist of Northern Renaissance painting. The result of that pursuit is a remarkable journey through major European cities and across continents. As Ferris takes a keen analytical eye to the paintings, each piece brings new revelations about Bruegel's art, and gives way to meditations on mortality, fatherhood, and life. Ferris conjures a whole world to which most of us have probably lost the key, and in the process teaches us how to look, patiently and curiously, at the world. Short Life in a Strange World is a dazzlingly original and assured debut--a strange and bewitching hybrid of art criticism, philosophical reflection, and poignant memoir. Beautifully illustrated with sixty-six color images, it subtly alters the way we see the world and ourselves.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Toby Ferris
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.02.2020
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Allgemeines, Lexika; Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher
• EAN: 9780062931757
• ISBN: 978-0-06-293175-7
• Anzahl Seiten: 336
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.2 x 23.5 x 3.2 cm
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