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Ferris, Toby.
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Ferris, Toby.
Ferris, Toby -- Travel.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Themes, motives.
Painters -- Belgium -- Biography.
Essayists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Ferris, Toby.
Ferris, Toby.
Ferris, Toby -- Travel.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Themes, motives.
Painters -- Belgium -- Biography.
Essayists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Short
life
in a
strange
world
:
birth
to
death
in
42
panels
/ Toby Ferris.
by
Ferris, Toby.
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
Call #:
921 F394s
Subjects
Ferris, Toby.
Ferris, Toby -- Travel.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Themes, motives.
Painters -- Belgium -- Biography.
Essayists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780062931757 (hc.)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
vi, 326 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Published simultaneously in Great Britain in 2020 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Summary:
"Toby Ferris is the creator of Anatomy of Norbiton, a web-based series of essays on suburban
life
and universal failure. At the age of
42
, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down each of the
42
surviving paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who, at the age of
42
, had been approaching the end of his own
short
life
. The results of his journey are a revelation: Bruegel's
panels
, their landscapes teeming with robust
life
, become a lens through which Ferris takes stock of the
world
, informing everything from mortality, fatherhood and contemporary
life
, to the bombing of Rotterdam, the extinction of North American megafauna and how to ward off bears in the forest."
Genre:
Memoirs.
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