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

Label / Thames & Hudson Ltd
Category / Occult, Supernatural, Mysticism
Code / 9780500516348

Erik Desmazieres 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 DesmaziÃ¨res produces is a bibliophileâ€™s 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 MauriÃ¨sâ€™s text is in three parts. The first locates DesmaziÃ¨res 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 MauriÃ¨s examines todayâ€™s reawakened interest in cabinets of rarities and curiosities, and considers how a phenomenon once considered the preserve of specialists has entered the cultural mainstream.

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