Albert and the whale Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world

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, H...

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Main Author: Hoare, Philip (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Edition:First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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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.
Physical Description:296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781643137261
1643137263
Author Notes:Philip Hoare is the author of eight works of nonfiction including The Whale, which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction. Hoare is an experienced broadcaster, a Visiting Fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist-in-residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011. He lives in Southampton