An Entrance for the eyes : space and meaning in seventeenth-century dutch art
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
- ISBN13 9790520221351
- ISBN10 0520221354
- Type BOOK
- Pages 263
- Published 2002
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Subjects
Arte Moderna E ContemporaneaAn Entrance for the eyes : space and meaning in seventeenth-century dutch art
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
"How refreshing, how absolutely refreshing, to find a book on Dutch painting that asks readers to begin by simply looking. Hollander is faithful to the possibilityso common in painting, so unusual in scholarshipthat the paintings are elusive, evasive, unsystematically ambiguous. Doors ajar, windows onto the street, paintings within paintings, half-drawn curtains, blank mirrors, a man's coat hung on a nail:those are the engines of interpretation, and Hollander tells their history lucidly and entirely persuasively."-James Elkins, author of The Object Stares Back
"Hollander offers fresh and compelling readings of key works by Karel van Mander, Gerard Dou, Nicolaes Maes, and Pieter de Hooch. Very few recent books on Dutch art are as rich as this;and few are written in such lucid, unpretentious prose. What shines forth from every page is a genuine love of the pictures. Here is art history well tempered to the objects it interprets."-Joseph L. Koerner, author of The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
"In recent years, scholars have explored how space signifies in seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture;Hollander's fascinating study is the most comprehensive to date. It examines spaceas conceived in the writings of Dutch art theorists, constructed in contemporary architecture, and disposed and made meaningful in the work of Gerard Dou, Nicolaes Maes, Pieter de Hooch, and Karel van Mander. An Entrance for the Eyes lays a firm foundation for research on this intriguing and hitherto understudied aspect of Dutch art."-Wayne E. Franits, author of Paragons of Virtue:Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
Author Biography:Martha Hollander is Associate Professor of Art History at New College of Hofstra University. She is the author of a book of poems, The Game of Statues (1990).