Author: Westermann, Marit & C.Willemijn Fock & Eric Jan Sluijter & H. Perry Chapman:
Title: Art & Home. Dutch interiors in the age of Rembrandt.
Description: 2003, (25,5 x 29,5 cm) 240 pp. English, numerous ills., hardcover and dustwrappers. Het fluweelzachte stof, het glanzende metaal en het broze heldere glas; de Nederlandse genreschilders in de Gouden Eeuw waren zo ervaren in het nabootsen van de uiterlijke schijn dat het lijkt of hun huiselijke scenes ooit zo hebben bestaan. Art & Home onthult nu de werkwijze achter deze illusies en biedt inzicht in de werkelijkheid die als inspiratie hieraan ten grondslag lag. Wij lezen waarom huiselijke interieurs zo geliefd waren bij 17de-eeuwse Nederlandse kunstenaars en hun klanten en waarom deze huiselijke taferelen en familieportretten nu, driehonderd jaar later, nog net zo fris en krachtig overkomen als toen ze werden gemaakt. The caress of fabrics, the sheen of metal, the brittle luminosity of glass--Dutch genre painters of the Golden Age were so skilled at mimicking the appearance of things that their largely imaginary domestic scenes are utterly convincing pictures of life as it was once lived. Art and Home reveals the tricks behind this illusion and gives us insight into the social reality that animates the deception. We learn why domestic interiors were a favorite subject for 17th-century Dutch artists and their middle-class customers. And we come to understand why these images of home and family, the earliest in the history of art, still speak to us 300 years later in a voice as fresh and powerful as when they first appeared. This is the story of an art that echoed and shaped the ideals of an emerging nation, a sensitive portrait of the painted fictions that laid the ground for our modern concept of 'home' as the compass of our true selves.
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Title: Art & Home. Dutch interiors in the age of Rembrandt.
Description: 2003, (25,5 x 29,5 cm) 240 pp. English, numerous ills., hardcover and dustwrappers. Het fluweelzachte stof, het glanzende metaal en het broze heldere glas; de Nederlandse genreschilders in de Gouden Eeuw waren zo ervaren in het nabootsen van de uiterlijke schijn dat het lijkt of hun huiselijke scenes ooit zo hebben bestaan. Art & Home onthult nu de werkwijze achter deze illusies en biedt inzicht in de werkelijkheid die als inspiratie hieraan ten grondslag lag. Wij lezen waarom huiselijke interieurs zo geliefd waren bij 17de-eeuwse Nederlandse kunstenaars en hun klanten en waarom deze huiselijke taferelen en familieportretten nu, driehonderd jaar later, nog net zo fris en krachtig overkomen als toen ze werden gemaakt. The caress of fabrics, the sheen of metal, the brittle luminosity of glass--Dutch genre painters of the Golden Age were so skilled at mimicking the appearance of things that their largely imaginary domestic scenes are utterly convincing pictures of life as it was once lived. Art and Home reveals the tricks behind this illusion and gives us insight into the social reality that animates the deception. We learn why domestic interiors were a favorite subject for 17th-century Dutch artists and their middle-class customers. And we come to understand why these images of home and family, the earliest in the history of art, still speak to us 300 years later in a voice as fresh and powerful as when they first appeared. This is the story of an art that echoed and shaped the ideals of an emerging nation, a sensitive portrait of the painted fictions that laid the ground for our modern concept of 'home' as the compass of our true selves.
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Price: EUR 75.00 = appr. US$ 81.51 Seller: Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.
- Book number: 7719
- Book number: 7719
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