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Simon Schama & Martine Gosselink - Birds: The Goldfinch, Birds, Art and Us
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| Schrijver: | Simon Schama & Martine Gosselink |
| Titel: | Birds: The Goldfinch, Birds, Art and Us |
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| Uitgever: | , Hannibal Books, 2026 |
| Bijzonderheid: | Hardcover, 26.5 x 21.5 cm, 200 pages, Quadrichromy, English edition. *new. ISBN 265x21520097894. |
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€ 35,00
€ 6,99
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| Meer info | Simon Schama explores our enduring fascination with birds in a visually stunning art book ?No other creatures have fixed themselves so obsessively and ubiquitously in our restless, earth-stuck imagination as birds? the fixation painted, imprinted, sculpted, filmed in our art.?? Simon Schama From Icarus to Peter Pan, who hasn?t dreamt of flying? Birds are the embodiment of our desires, fears and fantasies. In this publication internationally renowned (art) historian Simon Schama and Mauritshuis director Martine Gosselink explore the fascinating relationship between humans and birds through art, literature and cultural history. Carel Fabritius?s world-famous Goldfinch, Picasso?s Dove, Brancusi?s Bird in Space, an Egyptian falcon mummy, a feather dress by Iris van Herpen: this book is a visual and literary journey through centuries of bird imagery. The icing on the cake is a wonderful anthology of bird stories from, among other works, The Epic of Gilgamesh and One Thousand and One Nights, as well as bird poems by such writers as Rabindranath Tagore, Ted Hughes, Bob Marley and R?m?. With contributions by Simon Schama, Martine Gosselink, Laura Cumming, Stefan Hertmans, Philip Hoare, Eva Meijer and Adrienne Quarles van Ufford. This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition BIRDS ? Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schamain Mauritshuis, The Hague from 12 February to 7 June 2026. |
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