A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death - Hardcover

Érik Desmazières; Patrick Mauriès

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500516340 ISBN 13: 9780500516348

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2012

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'Elegantly macabre ... provokes a titillation of fear, which is not unpleasant when safely enclosed by hard covers' - Irish Times

Reseña del editor:

Erik Desmazières is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazières produces is a bibliophile’s delight; and this book, the first in which he uses colour, reimagines the arcane world of the cabinet of curiosities: antiquarian collections of the recondite, rare and bizarre, which reminded the viewer of the vanity of earthly life. Patrick Mauriès’s text is in three parts. The first locates Desmazières and his work in the long tradition of artist-printmakers; the second surveys the world of 17th-century antiquarianism and its intriguing cast of characters (John Evelyn, John Aubrey and, above all, Thomas Browne, plus many of their continental counterparts); and in the third Mauriès examines today’s reawakened interest in cabinets of rarities and curiosities, and considers how a phenomenon once considered the preserve of specialists has entered the cultural mainstream.

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• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0500516340
• ISBN 13: 9780500516348
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 110