Albrecht Dürer’s material world

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Albrecht Dürer’s material world is written by Edward H. Wouk and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1526183498 (ISBN 10) and 9781526183491 (ISBN 13).

The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery’s outstanding Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer as an intense observer of the worlds of manufacture, design and trade that fill his graphic art. Artworks and artefacts examined here expose understudied aspects of Dürer’s art and practice, including his attentive examination of objects of daily domestic use, his involvement in economies of local manufacture and exchange, the microarchitectures of local craft and, finally, his attention to cultures of natural and philosophical inquiry and learning.