Short Life in a Strange World
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
Toby Ferris. Short Life in a Strange World
Short Life in a Strange World. Birth to Death in 42 Panels. Toby Ferris
Copyright
Dedication
The Panels
I Flight
II Census
III Fire
IV Massacre
V Grey
VI Beggar
VII Cold
VIII Bear
IX Technique
X Gallows
XI Singularity
XII Crowd
XIII Home
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
About the Author
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For Simon, Frank and Sid,
and in memory of Robert Henry
.....
It was a version of excitement known to Daedalus, and not Icarus. Wilbur and Orville Wright would have understood. For them on that first day the exhilaration would have been as much in the play of canvas and wood, in the creak of the struts and the stench of petrol, as in any sensations of buoyancy and velocity. Bruegel, a miniaturist by instinct, his nose close to the oils on the canvas or panel, must have known something similar, painting his absurd ship. A good painting, like a real ship, is a Daedalic object: not a pretty thing of spirit and billows for the painter who labours in front of it, but a straining, groaning, improvable, precarious livelihood.
The ship on Bruegel’s canvas, by contrast, is all fluttering impetuosity, out of control, ignorant of physics. Alive.
.....