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Author:
Ferris, Toby, author.
Title:
Short life in a strange world : birth to death in 42 panels / Toby Ferris.
Edition:
First U.S. edition
Publisher:
Harperan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
vi, 326 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Bruegel, Pieter,--approximately 1525-1569.
Bruegel, Pieter,--approximately 1525-1569--Criticism and interpretation.
Bruegel, Pieter,--approximately 1525-1569--Themes, motives.
Ferris, Toby--Travel.
Art criticism.
Travel writing.
Notes:
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. The results of his journey 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."--adapted from publisher's description
ISBN:
9780062931757
006293175X
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1103159490
Locations:
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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