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Author Ferris, Toby, author.

Title Short life in a strange world : birth to death in 42 panels / Toby Ferris.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  759.94 FER    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description vi, 326 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Published simultaneously in Great Britain in 2020 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Summary "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."--adapted from publisher's description
Contents The panels -- Flight -- Census -- Fire -- Massacre -- Grey -- Beggar -- Cold -- Bear -- Technique -- Gallows -- Singularity -- Crowd -- Home -- Epilogue.
Subject Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Themes, motives.
Ferris, Toby -- Travel.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569. (OCoLC)fst01810029
Themes, motives. (OCoLC)fst01355139
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 006293175X hardcover
9780062931757 hardcover
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