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Ferris, Toby

 
9780008340964: Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 000834096X ISBN 13 : 9780008340964
Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Short Life In A Strange World Birth To Death In 42 Panels, 9780008340964

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À propos de l'auteur

Toby Ferris is the creator of Anatomy of Norbiton, a web-based series of essays on suburban life and universal failure, as seen through the lens of the art of the Renaissance. He lives and works in Cambridge. Short Life in a Strange World is his first book.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down each of the 42 surviving paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who, at the age of 42, had been approaching the end of his own short life.

Over the next five years Ferris would travel to 22 galleries in 19 cities in 12 countries across 2 continents: Budapest to San Diego, Detroit to Naples, Berlin to Madrid, ticking off his Bruegels as he went.

The results of his journeying are a revelation: Bruegel’s panels, their landscapes teeming with robust life, become a lens through which Ferris takes stock of the world, informing everything from mortality, fatherhood, and contemporary life, to the bombing of Rotterdam, the extinction of North American megafauna, and how to ward off bears in the forest.

Short Life in a Strange World is a dazzlingly original hybrid of art criticism, philosophical reflection and poignant memoir, a book about one man’s obsession with Bruegel’s short life in a strange if familiar world, and the precisely-detailed yet cosmos-encompassing works in ink and oil which sprang from it.

And it begins with the story of a boy who fell from the sky.

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Éditeur
Fourth Estate Ltd
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
000834096X
ISBN 13 
9780008340964
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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