The early Du?rer / edited by Daniel Hess and Thomas Eser
Nuremberg: Thames & Hudson, 2012. First Edition. Fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #379759
ISBN: 9780500970379
Physical description: 603 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 28 cm. Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 24-September 2, 2012"--Colophon. Published to accompany the exhibition held 24 May - 2 Sept. 2012 at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-582) and indexes. Contents: A different early Du?rer : three proposals / Thomas Eser -- An ideal neighborhood : the physical environment of the early Du?rer as a space of experience / Sebastian Gulden -- Albrecht Du?rer and Strasbourg / Michael Roth -- The young Du?rer and Italy : contact with Italy and the mobility of art and artists around 1500 / Beate Bo?ckem -- Du?rer, Celtis and the birth of landscape painting from the spirit of the "Germania illustrata" / Jo?rg Robert -- The "other apelles" and the "painter with the bushy beard" : Du?rer as a subject in German literature around 1500 / Anja Grebe -- Tradition as challenge : Du?rer's earliest studies for figures / Stephanie Buck -- Du?rer's early private and commissioned portraits between tradition and innovation / Dagmar Hirschfelder -- Nature as art's supreme guide : Du?rer's nature and landscape studies / Daniel Hess -- Du?rer and stained glass / Hartmut Scholz -- Why woodcut? : Du?rer in search of his medium and role / Peter Schmidt -- The young Du?rer and 15th-century engraving / Lothar Schmitt -- Du?rer as painter : the early work up to 1505 / Daniel Hess, Oliver Mack -- Sternkraut : "The word that unlocks" Du?rer's self-portrait of 1493 / Shira Brisman -- Peripeteia : Konrad Celtis, the Nuremberg school of poets and Du?rer's "Ercules" / Thomas Schauerte -- Architecture in the work of the young Du?rer / G. Ulrich Grossmann -- Du?rer's Madonnas? / Peggy Grosse -- "Ein freie Hant" : autonomy, drawing and the young Du?rer / Stephanie Porras -- Catalogue. Section 1, The self and its new media ; Section 2, Copying and making new ; Section 3, "Powerful art" : Du?rer as a dramatist ; Section 4, What is art? -- Appendix. Material for a Du?rer matrix from 1471 to 1505. Subjects; Du?rer, Albrecht 1471-1528 ; Exhibitions. Du?rer, Albrecht 1471-1528 Criticism and interpretation. Du?rer, Albrecht 1471-1528 ; Expositions .Artistes Allemagne ; Biographies ; Expositions. Art and Design.
Price: €125.00