Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels – An Illustrated Memoir on Fatherhood, Mortality, and Pieter Bruegel's Renaissance Art - Couverture rigide

Ferris, Toby

 
9780062931757: Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels – An Illustrated Memoir on Fatherhood, Mortality, and Pieter Bruegel's Renaissance Art
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ISBN 10 : 006293175X ISBN 13 : 9780062931757
Editeur : Harper, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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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. http://anatomyofnorbiton.org/

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Éditeur
Harper
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
006293175X
ISBN 13 
9780062931757
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
HarperCollins Publishers Ireland
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9780008340964: Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  000834096X ISBN 13 :  9780008340964
Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2020
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