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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine Plus jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws-clean, unmarked, tightly bound.; xvi-288pp., 8 color plates, 54 b/w figures., examines the renewal of interest in vermeer which commenced in 19th century germany and france, and continues ever more today, worldwide.
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New. 0521550203. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--with a bonus offer--; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Vermeer. Very good in very good(-) jacket. Illustrated with a handful of color and b/w plates. 288 pages. 4to, natural cloth, d.w. (Melbourne): Cambridge University Press, (1996). A very good copy--foxing to edges and front cloth; in a very good(-) wrapper--crinkles to upper edges, lightly sunned spine.
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VG-/VG-(light bumping to corners, light wear to block and dust jacket) Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, dark green dust jacket with color illustration on front, white lettering, xii, 288 pp, bw and color illustrations. This study interprets the suppositions underlying Vermeer's canonisation and addresses the critical problem of locating paintings in history. This book also makes a large contribution to the evolving discipline of the history of art. Contents include: pt. I. Idyll--The German Reception of Dutch Art and Vermeer's Paintings of Social Life. 1. Hegel's Legacy to German Scholarship on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting. 2. Vermeer's Paintings of Social Life as "Disturbed Idylls" 3. Temporality and Difference: "The Chinese Hat"--pt. II. Fiction--The French Reception of Vermeer and the Modernity of Vermeer's Cityscape. 4. French Travel Literature of the Nineteenth Century. 5. Art Criticism 1857-1913: The "Oriental" Vermeer. 6. The Modern Vermeer: Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. 7. Seriality and Originality: Vermeer's View of Delft, His "Identical World, " and Dutch Painting in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. 8. Fernbild--pt. III. Allegory--The Question of Authority in Vermeer's The Art of Painting and Allegory of Faith. 9. Theories and Concepts of Allegory. 10. Vermeer's The Art of Painting. 11. Veritas Filia Temporis. 12. Vermeer's Allegory of Faith. Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.
