Edward H. Wouk

Albrecht DuRer's Material World

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ISBN: 9781526167606
Author : Edward H. Wouk
Published: 2023
Publisher: Manchester UP
Number of pages: 224
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Description
The painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery's outstanding Durer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Durer as an intense observer of the worlds of manufacture, design and trade that fill his graphic art.

Artworks and artefacts examined here expose understudied aspects of Durer's art and practice, including his attentive examination of objects of daily domestic use, his involvement in economies of local manufacture and exchange, the microarchitectures of local craft and, finally, his attention to cultures of natural and philosophical inquiry and learning. -- .

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