Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, The by Panofsky, Erwin - 1971

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. First Page of Front Matter Pulled (Sticker Removal?); Small, Unobtrusive Puncture Through Cover to Table of Contents (No Impediment to Text); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 223. COVER: The picture on the front cover is a portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, engraved by Durer in 1526. CONTENTS: Prefaces; List of Illustrations; INTRODUCTION I. Apprenticeship and Early Years of Travel, 1484-1495 II. Five Years of Intense Productivity, 1495-1500 III. Five Years of Rational Synthesis, 1500-1505 IV. The Second Trip to Italy and the Culmination of Painting, 1505-1510/11 V. Reorientation in the Graphic Arts; The Culmination of Engraving, 1507/11-1514 VI. Durer's Activity for Maximilian I; The "Decorative Style," 1512/13-1518/19 VII. The Crisis of 1519; The Journey to the Netherlands, 1520-1521; The Last Works, 1521-1528 VIII. Durer as a Theorist of Art; Selected Bibliography; Appendix; Indices. EXCERPT: PREFACE For reasons best known to itself, the Princeton University Press has proposed to make my book on Albrecht Durer, last issued in 1948, available in what may be called a portable edition: a single volume containing the Text (including the Bibliography and the previous Prefaces) as well as the Illustrations, but not the Handlist of Works. I have accepted this proposal the more readily as the remarkable improvement of the offset process, largely due to the ingenuity and patience of Mr. E. H. Hugo of the Meriden Gravure Company, now makes possible the successful duplication of the original illustrations. The very nature of this process precluded major alterations; but this restriction, it is hoped, will increase rather than impair the usefulness of the present volume. Since neither the pagination of the text nor the numeration of the pictures has been changed, references to the earlier editions are equivalent to references to the new one and vice versa. And that the text still bristles with Handlist numbers (Arabic numerals in parentheses), even though the Handlist itself has disappeared, may be helpful to those who wish for more specific information than the present volume provides. This new edition, then, differs from its more ambitious predecessors in size and appearance rather than in purpose: it is still the same book, addressed to the student as well as the "general reader." And with the interests of the former in mind, the Princeton University Press has agreed to the addition of an Appendix (p. 299) containing some corrections and amplifications; so that, if the original editions may serve as a completive adjunct to the present volume, the present volume may serve as a corrective postscript to the original editions. E.P. Princeton, N.J. November 1, 1954.. Fourth Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Albrecht Durer. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.