Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels
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Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels

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Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 PanelsSure 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

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.

--Los Angeles Times

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 02/25/2020
ISBN: 9780062931757
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2019
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