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Vermeer and His Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Vermeer and His Time

  • Categories: Art

Johannes Vemeer, a 17th century artist, is recognised primarily for his genre scenes. Through meticulous precision in his paintings and drawings he achieves perfection and maximum impact. Unlike his predecessors, Vermeer used a camera obscura to bring even more perspective to his art in the most delicate of manners. He revolutionised the way in which we use and make paint and his colour application techniques predate some of those used by the impressionists nearly two centuries later. Girl with a Pearl Earring remains to this day his greatest masterpiece.

Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing

  • Categories: Art

"The result is a Vermeer we have not seen before: a painter whose serene spaces and calm subjects incorporate within themselves, however obliquely, the world's troubles. Vermeer abandons what his predecessors had labored so carefully to achieve: legible spaces, a world of moral clarity defined by the pressure of a hand against a table or the scatter of light across a bare wall. Instead Vermeer complicated Dutch domestic art and invented what has puzzled and captivated his admirers ever since: the odd daubs of white pigment, dancing across the plane of the canvas; patches of blurred surface, contradicting the painting's illusionism without explanation; and the querulous silence that endows his women with secrets they dare not reveal.".

Vermeer and the Delft School
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 642

Vermeer and the Delft School

Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has assembled a splendid catalog of Vermeer and his artistic milieu. Seven lengthy, well-illustrated chapters (Liedtke wrote five, Dutch art historians Michiel Plomp and Marten Jan Bok wrote the others) describe life in the city of Delft; the painters Carel Fabritius, Leonart Bramer, and others who preceded Vermeer; the careers of Vermeer and De Hooch; the making of drawings and prints in 17th-century Delft; and the collecting of art in the same period. The catalog follows: each painting, print, and drawing accompanied by a lengthy catalog essay. Oversize: 12.25x9.75". c. Book News Inc.

Vermeer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Vermeer

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-04
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  • Publisher: Macmillan

Presents a portrait of Vermeer's life and character.

Vermeer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Vermeer

  • Categories: Art

The canonicity of Jan Vermeer's oeuvre was originally established within the general framework of modernist aesthetics. The specific concepts guiding critics were developed in the context of a reappraisal of Dutch painting in the nineteenth century, particularly in Germany and France. In this study, Christiane Hertel interprets the suppositions underlying Vermeer's canonization and also addresses the critical problem of locating his paintings in history.

Paintings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

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Vermeer, 1632-1675
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Vermeer, 1632-1675

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Taschen

Vermeer's record of the tasks and duties of women The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one of the great masters of the golden age of Dutch art. Most of his pictures (all of which are reproduced in this book) show women about their daily business. Vermeer records the tasks and duties of women, the imperatives of virtue under which their lives were lived, and the dreams that provided the substance of their contrasting counter-world. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

I Was Vermeer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

I Was Vermeer

A fascinating portrait of the career of master forger Han van Meegeren describes how this troubled, second-rate painter became a secret star of the art world, thanks to his superlative Vermeer forgeries, whose victims included Hermann Gring, after trading the Nazi leader one of his forgeries for hundreds of looted Dutch paintings.

Vermeer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Vermeer

  • Categories: Art

Lawrence Gowing's classic study has long been treasured for the painterly sensibilities he brought to Vermeer's greatly loved body of work. Now the text is available again, with a new foreword by Sir Ernst Gombrich, a new essay on Vermeer written by Lawrence Gowing in 1991, a new select bibliography and fresh reproductions of Vermeer's paintings.

A Study of Vermeer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

A Study of Vermeer

  • Categories: Art

"An exemplary book about seeing: about what the mind can do with great art. Like the sublime paintings which are its subject, "A Study of Vermeer is full of sensual and spiritual pleasures."--Susan Sontag "A rigorously searching analysis of the psychology and subject matter of a master whose paintings are as enigmatic as they are beautiful. This revision is not so much an improvement of the 1979 text as an elaboration of its insights, and with some very interesting reconsiderations."--Guy Davenport