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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520071301
ISBN-139780520071308
eBay Product ID (ePID)138247
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameStudy of Vermeer, Revised and Enlarged Edition
LanguageEnglish
SubjectIndividual Artists / General, European
Publication Year1994
TypeTextbook
AuthorEdward Snow
Subject AreaArt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight28.9 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN92-021860
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingA
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal759.9492
Table Of ContentLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION PART ONE: HEAD OF A YOUNG GIRL PART TWO: ART AND SEXUALITY PAINTERLY INHIBITIONS TWO EARLY PAINTINGS THE ENIGMA OF THE IMAGE PART THREE: MEANING IN VERMEER NOTES PAGE INDEX PAGE
Edition DescriptionEnlarged edition,Revised edition
SynopsisEdward Snow's A Study of Vermeer , first published in 1979 and here presented in an expanded and elaborately revised version, starts from a single premise: that we respond so intensely to Vermeer because his paintings reach so deeply into our lives. Our desire for images, the distances that separate us, the validations we seek from the still world, the traces of ghostliness in our own human presence--these, the book proposes, are Vermeer's themes, which he pursues with a realism always in touch with the uncanny. As Snow traces the many counterpoised sensations that make up Vermeer's equanimity, he leads us into a world of nuances and surprise. A Study of Vermeer is passionate and visual in its commitments. Snow works from the conviction that viewing pictures is a reciprocal act--symbiotic, consequential, real. His discussions of Vermeer's paintings are conducted in a language of patient observation, and they involve the reader in an experience of deepening relation and ongoing visual discovery. The book has been designed to facilitate this process: over eighty illustrations, fifty-nine in color (including two full-page foldouts), accompany the text so that the details Snow illuminates will be continally in view. Here is a book to enthrall not only students of Vermeer, but anyone who feels the exhilaration of what Cézanne called "thinking in images.", Edward Snow's A Study of Vermeer, first published in 1979 and here presented in an expanded and elaborately revised version, starts from a single premise: that we respond so intensely to Vermeer because his paintings reach so deeply into our lives. Our desire for images, the distances that separate us, the validations we seek from the still world, the traces of ghostliness in our own human presence--these, the book proposes, are Vermeer's themes, which he pursues with a realism always in touch with the uncanny. As Snow traces the many counterpoised sensations that make up Vermeer's equanimity, he leads us into a world of nuances and surprise. A Study of Vermeer is passionate and visual in its commitments. Snow works from the conviction that viewing pictures is a reciprocal act--symbiotic, consequential, real. His discussions of Vermeer's paintings are conducted in a language of patient observation, and they involve the reader in an experience of deepening relation and ongoing visual discovery. The book has been designed to facilitate this process: over eighty illustrations, fifty-nine in color (including two full-page foldouts), accompany the text so that the details Snow illuminates will be continally in view. Here is a book to enthrall not only students of Vermeer, but anyone who feels the exhilaration of what CÉzanne called "thinking in images.", Edward Snow's A Study of Vermeer , first published in 1979 and here presented in an expanded and elaborately revised version, starts from a single premise: that we respond so intensely to Vermeer because his paintings reach so deeply into our lives. Our desire for images, the distances that separate us, the validations we seek from the still world, the traces of ghostliness in our own human presence--these, the book proposes, are Vermeer's themes, which he pursues with a realism always in touch with the uncanny. As Snow traces the many counterpoised sensations that make up Vermeer's equanimity, he leads us into a world of nuances and surprise. A Study of Vermeer is passionate and visual in its commitments. Snow works from the conviction that viewing pictures is a reciprocal act--symbiotic, consequential, real. His discussions of Vermeer's paintings are conducted in a language of patient observation, and they involve the reader in an experience of deepening relation and ongoing visual discovery. The book has been designed to facilitate this process: over eighty illustrations, fifty-nine in color (including two full-page foldouts), accompany the text so that the details Snow illuminates will be continally in view. Here is a book to enthrall not only students of Vermeer, but anyone who feels the exhilaration of what Cezanne called "thinking in images."
LC Classification NumberND653.V5S66 1994
