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Albert and the whale : Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world / Philip Hoare.
Fine Arts Library NE654.D9 H64 2021
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LIBRA NE654.D9 H64 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoare, Philip, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
- Dürer, Albrecht.
- Artists--Germany--Biography.
- Artists.
- Germany.
- Art--History.
- Art.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Distribution:
- [New York, New York] : Simon & Schuster.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- Albert and the Whale explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens. Drawing on Philip's experience of the natural world, and of the elements that shape our contemporary lives, from suburbia to the wide open sea, Philip will enter Dürer's time machine. Seeking his own Leviathan, Hoare help us better understand the interplay between art and our world in this sublimely seductive book.
- ISBN:
- 9781643137261
- 1643137263
- OCLC:
- 1240729289
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