Bosch A&I (Art & Ideas)

Bosch A&I (Art & Ideas)

• Book Format: Paperback
• Dimensions: 220 160 mm (8 5/8 6 1/4 in)
• Page Count: 352 pages
• Visuals: 200 illustrations
• ISBN Number: 9780714839745

Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), one of the major artists of the Northern Renaissance, had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination. Known as the creator of disturbing demons and spectacular hellscapes, he also painted the Garden of Earthly Delights, where gleeful naked youths feast on giant strawberries. Little is known of Bosch's life and his art has remained enigmatic, variously interpreted as the hallucinations of a madman or the secret language of a heretical sect. The Surrealists claimed Bosch as a predecessor, seeing in his work the imagery of dream, fantasy and the subconscious. Laurinda Dixon argues, however, that to understand and appreciate Bosch's art, we must return to the era in which he lived.