Vermeer
$22.95, paperback
978-0-520-21276-3
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240 pages, 80 B&W; 8 color
December 1997, Not available in British Commonwealth, Europe; Include Canada
Categories: Art; Art History; Art Criticism
December 1997, Not available in British Commonwealth, Europe; Include Canada
Categories: Art; Art History; Art Criticism
"Brilliant analysis. . . . Must surely rank as one of the most profound interpretations of a painter ever written."—Burlington Magazine
"It is, as we would expect, a painter's approach, but it is widened by the recognition that any artist's work is governed by the psychological nature of the artist himself. . . . A piece of first-rate scholarship and aesthetic understanding."—Apollo
"Widely regarded as the most perceptive study of the painter."—New York Review of Books
"It is, as we would expect, a painter's approach, but it is widened by the recognition that any artist's work is governed by the psychological nature of the artist himself. . . . A piece of first-rate scholarship and aesthetic understanding."—Apollo
"Widely regarded as the most perceptive study of the painter."—New York Review of Books
"Gowing's text remains the single best sustained piece of critical writing that exists on Vermeer."—Svetlana Alpers
Lawrence Gowing's classic study has long been treasured for the painterly sensibilities he brought to this greatly loved body of work. Finally the text is available again, with a new foreword and fresh reproductions of Vermeer's paintings.