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Albrecht DüRer’s Material World

Jennifer Spinks editor Edward H Wouk editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:6th Jun '23

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Albrecht DüRer’s Material World cover

The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer 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 Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer 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 Dürer’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.

ISBN: 9781526167606

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224 pages