Vermeer S Wager

Author : Ivan Gaskell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861890729

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Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practiced, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the unique character of works of art. Our relationship to art is mediated, not only through reproduction – particularly photography – but also through displays in museums. In an analysis that ranges from seventeenth-century Holland, through mid-nineteenth-century France, to artists' and curators' practice today, Gaskell draws on his experience of Dutch art history, philosophy and contemporary art criticism. Anyone with an interest in Vermeer and the afterlife of his art will value this book, as will all who think seriously about the role of photography in perception and the core purposes of art museums.

Author : Ivan Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : 661279609X

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Vermeer's Wager by Ivan Gaskell Pdf

Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art.

Author : Ivan Gaskell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861897435

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Vermeer's Wager by Ivan Gaskell Pdf

Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practiced, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the unique character of works of art. Our relationship to art is mediated, not only through reproduction – particularly photography – but also through displays in museums. In an analysis that ranges from seventeenth-century Holland, through mid-nineteenth-century France, to artists' and curators' practice today, Gaskell draws on his experience of Dutch art history, philosophy and contemporary art criticism. Anyone with an interest in Vermeer and the afterlife of his art will value this book, as will all who think seriously about the role of photography in perception and the core purposes of art museums.

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780143191001

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Vermeers Hat by Timothy Brook Pdf

In one painting, a military officer in a Dutch sitting room flirts with a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer’s paintings haunt us with their beauty and mystery—what stories lay behind these stunningly rendered moments? As Timothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. The dashing officer’s hat is of beaver fur from Canada, while the pieces of silver, mined in Peru, might be used to purchase the Chinese porcelain seen in other Vermeer paintings. Moving outward from Vermeer’s studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe in the seventeenth century. The wharves of Holland, wrote a French visitor, were “an inventory of the possible.” Vermeer’s Hat shows just how rich this inventory was, and how the urge to acquire such things was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11480085

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Oud-Holland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Lopez
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780547247847

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The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez Pdf

It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering in mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe: Not only was Van Meegeren a key player in that high-stakes game in the 1920s and '30s, landing fakes with famous collectors such as Andrew Mellon, but he and his associates later cashed in on the Nazi occupation. The Man Who Made Vermeers is a long-overdue unvarnishing of Van Meegeren's legend and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.

Author : P. T. A. Swillens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Delft (Netherlands)
ISBN : UCSC:32106006826827

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Johannes Vermeer by P. T. A. Swillens Pdf

Author : John Michael Montias
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691002894

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Vermeer and His Milieu by John Michael Montias Pdf

This book is not only a fascinating biography of one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century but also a social history of the colorful extended family to which he belonged and of the town life of the period. It explores a series of distinct worlds: Delft's Small-Cattle Market, where Vermeer's paternal family settled early in the century; the milieu of shady businessmen in Amsterdam that recruited Vermeer's grandfather to counterfeit coins; the artists, military contractors, and Protestant burghers who frequented the inn of Vermeer's father in Delft's Great Market Square; and the quiet, distinguished "Papists Corner" in which Vermeer, after marrying into a high-born Catholic family, retired to practice his art, while retaining ties with wealthy Protestant patrons. The relationship of Vermeer to his principal patron is one of many original discoveries in the book.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755644

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110423044

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The Visible and the Invisible by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat Pdf

The book addresses the scientific debates on Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, and Hoogstraten that are currently taking place in art history and cultural studies. These focus mainly on the representation of gender difference, the relationship between text and image, and the emotional discourse. They are also an appeal for art history as a form of cultural studies that analyses the semantic potential of art within discursive and social contemporary practices. Dutch painting of the seventeenth century reflects its relationship to visible reality. It deals with ambiguities and contradictions. As an avant-garde artistic media, it also contributes to the emergence of a subjectivity towards the modern “bourgeois”. It discards subject matter from its traditional fixation with iconology and evokes different imaginations and semantizations - aspects that have not been sufficiently taken into account in previous research. The book is to be understood as an appeal for art history as a form of cultural science that analyses the semantic potential of art within discursive and social contemporary practices, and, at the same time, demonstrates its relevance today. Works by Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, Hoogstraten, and others serve as exemplary case studies for addressing current debates in art history and cultural studies, such as representation of gender difference, relationship between text and image, and emotional discourse.

Author : Nicolaas de Roever,Abraham Bredius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Art
ISBN : OXFORD:305227421

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Oud Holland by Nicolaas de Roever,Abraham Bredius Pdf

Author : John Stone
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807129542

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Music from Apartment 8 by John Stone Pdf

Poet and cardiologist John Stone is a man of many voices. A gifted verse maker, he exhibits in his writing the qualities of a compassionate physician, a musician, linguist, naturalist, and down-to-earth yet whimsical grandfather, son, husband, and brother. Selections from four previous books together with twenty-two new works compose this exquisite volume, a “best of the best” sampling from a beloved poet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030812564

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Pacific Northwest Region Plan Standards and Guidelines by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D00668809V

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Final supplement to the environmental impact statement for an amendment to the Pacific Northwest regional guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Forest management
ISBN : UCD:31175020703099

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Final Supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement for an Amendment to the Pacific Northwest Regional Guide: Appendices by United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region Pdf

Siskiyou County Library has vol. 1 only.