Still Life with a Bridle : Essays and Apocryphas

Still Life with a Bridle : Essays and Apocryphas image
ISBN-10:

0224036521

ISBN-13:

9780224036528

Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1993
Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE.
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
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Description:

In Still Life with a Bridle, poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Herbert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.

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