| Description |
326 pages : color illustrations, facsimile ; 25 cm |
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Published simultaneously in Great Britain in 2020 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. |
| Summary |
"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 two continents: Budapest to San Diego, Detroit to Naples, Berlin to Madrid, ticking off the Bruegels as he went. The results of his journeys 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 dazzingly 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 all begins with the story of a boy who fell from the sky."--back cover. |
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Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.
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Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Themes, motives.
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Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- works.
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Ferris, Toby -- Travel.
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Painters -- Belgium -- Biography.
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Travel.
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Painting, Dutch.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9780062931757 |
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006293175X |
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