Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht D rer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. D rer drew hares and rhinoceroses in the way he painted saints and madonnas. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel; a spider crab or a bursting star like the augury of a black hole, in D rer's art, they were part of a connected world. Everything had meaning. But now he was in crisis. He had lost his patron, the Holy Roman Emperor. He was moorless and filled with wanderlust. In the shape of the whale, he saw his final ambition. D rer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. He painted signs and wonders; comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. Most startling and most modern of all, he painted himself, at every stage of his life. But his art captured more than the physical world, he also captured states of mind. 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 D rer's time machine. Seeking his own Leviathan, Hoare help us better understand the interplay between art and our world in this sublimely seductive book.Philip Hoare is the author of eight nonfiction books, one of which, The Whale, won the Samuel Johnson Award for Nonfiction in 2009. Hoare is a veteran broadcaster who is also a Visiting Fellow at Southampton University and a Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at Plymouth University's Marine Institute, where he received an honorary doctorate in 2011. He is a Southampton resident.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781643139470 |
| ISBN 10 | 1643139479 |
| Title | Albert and the Whale |
| Author | Philip Hoare |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pegasus Books |
| Year published | 2022-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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