Short life in a strange world : birth to death in 42 panels
Record details
- ISBN: 006293175X :
- ISBN: 9780062931757 :
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Physical Description:
326 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Published simultaneously in Great Britain in 202 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. |
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Subject: | Ferris, Toby Travel Bruegel, Pieter approximately 1525-1569 Criticism and interpretation Bruegel, Pieter approximately 1525-1569 |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Hanover Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Howe Library | 759.3 BRUEGEL | 31254003649056 | Lower level | Available | - |
Short Life in a Strange World : Birth to Death in 42 Panels
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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.