{"product_id":"albert-and-the-whale-albrecht-d-rer-and-how-art-imagines-our-world","title":"Albert and the Whale: Albrecht D?rer and How Art Imagines Our World","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of\u003ci\u003e The Whale\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1520, Albrecht Dürer, 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. Dürer 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 Dürer's art, they were part of a connected world. Everything had meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDürer 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut his art captured more than the physical world, he also captured states of mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlbert and the Whale\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Dürer's time machine. Seeking his own Leviathan, Hoare help us better understand the interplay between art and our world in this sublimely seductive book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Hoare\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight works of nonfiction including \u003ci\u003eThe Whale, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction. Hoare is an experienced broadcaster, a Visiting Fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist-in-residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011. He lives in Southampton\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50678989816082,"sku":"9781643139470","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9ce51a4-71d6-401b-936a-3acf2370c45a.jpg?v=1733898815","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/albert-and-the-whale-albrecht-d-rer-and-how-art-imagines-our-world","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}