{"id":13806,"date":"2007-05-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/prodotto\/rik-desmazieres-imaginary-places-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T05:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:39:20","slug":"rik-desmazieres-imaginary-places-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/p\/rik-desmazieres-imaginary-places-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9rik Desmazi\u00e8res. Imaginary places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThere are printmakers and printmakers, and then there is Erik Desmazi\u00e8res, a French-man who stands in a class by himself.\u201d \u2014 <\/strong><em><strong>The NewYorkTimes. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Erik Desmazi\u00e8res is considered one of the finest French printmakers of his generation. His etchings and drawings, rendered with masterly precision and attention to detail, range from intimate interiors to wild architectural fantasies, and recall Old Masters such as Bosch and Goya. A prolonging of childhood fairytales, the allure of Erik Desmazi\u00e8res\u2019s prints lies partly in their ambiguity and partly in the technical virtuosity, careful observation, and singularity of his inventions.<br \/>\nThe 80 prints and drawings in this volume are from the artist\u2019s production of the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on imaginary places.<br \/>\nIt includes the artist\u2019s masterpieces <em>The Temptation of St Anthony<\/em>, the prints used to illustrate Borges\u2019 <em>Library of Babel, Imaginary Alphabets<\/em>, and Rembrandt\u2019s <em>Curiosity Cabinet<\/em>, to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine writer, <strong>Alberto Manguel<\/strong>, author of the fascinating and erudite <em>The Dictionary of Imaginary Places<\/em>, contributes a critical essay on the fantastic nature of the artist\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are printmakers and printmakers, and then there is Erik Desmazi\u00e8res, a French-man who stands in a class by himself.\u201d \u2014 The NewYorkTimes. Erik Desmazi\u00e8res is considered one of the finest French printmakers of his generation. His etchings and drawings, rendered with masterly precision and attention to detail, range from intimate interiors to wild architectural&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13783,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[53,62],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13806","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-contemporary-art","7":"product_cat-graphic-arts","8":"disponibilita-si","9":"description-off","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13806"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13806"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}