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 ...
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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."
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Book. Octavo, 217 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild general shelf wear with scuffing to dust jacket. Textblock clean. Shelved in Art History. 1388833. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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