Albrecht D?er's Material World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526167606)

The painter and printmaker Albrecht D?er 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 D?er collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on D?er 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 D?er'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.

Author: Edward H. Wouk
ISBN-10: 1526167603
ISBN-13: 9781526167606
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.61h x 7.24w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2024