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A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death

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By (author): Erik Desmazieres Patrick Mauries

Erik Desmazières is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazières produces is a bibliophiles delight; and this book, the first in which he uses colour, reimagines the arcane world of the cabinet of curiosities: antiquarian collections of the recondite, rare and bizarre, which reminded the viewer of the vanity of earthly life. Patrick Maurièss text is in three parts. The first locates Desmazières and his work in the long tradition of artist-printmakers; the second surveys the world of 17th-century antiquarianism and its intriguing cast of characters (John Evelyn, John Aubrey and, above all, Thomas Browne, plus many of their continental counterparts); and in the third Mauriès examines todays reawakened interest in cabinets of rarities and curiosities, and considers how a phenomenon once considered the preserve of specialists has entered the cultural mainstream. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 790g
  • Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Oct 2012
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500516348

About Erik DesmazieresPatrick Mauries

Erik Desmazières is a French engraver and printmaker who is represented in numerous important public and private collections all over the world.

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