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Vermeer :Faith in Painting

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Vermeer

Vermeer :Faith in Painting

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Published: 21 November, 1996
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Through a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, Daniel Arasse explores the originality of this artist in the context of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Arguing that Vermeer was not a painter in the conventional, commercial sense of his Dutch colleagues, Arasse suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal and ambitious effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art. By examining Vermeer's approach to image-making, the author finds that his works demonstrate the concept of painting as a medium through which the viewer senses the ungraspable and mysterious presence of life. Not only does this concept of painting carry on the traditions of Classical Antiquity and the High Renaissance, but it also relates to Catholic ideas about spiritual meditation and the power of images. Arasse shows that although Vermeer usually uses secular subject matter commonplace among his contemporaries, his treatment of iconography, light, and line, for example, varies greatly from theirs. Iconographical elements tend to hold meaning in suspense rather than to explicate; dazzling light emanates from interior objects; sfumato renders the presence of objects without depicting them. Discussing these and other aspects of Vermeer's art, Arasse locates the painter's genius in the reflexive, meditative nature of his works, each of which seems to be a painting about painting.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780691029306
ISBN10 069102930X
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 340 g
Publisher / Reseller Princeton University Press
Format paperback
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"Vermeer has always proved an elusive artist, yet he has also held a special fascination... [This book] makes considerable headway in outlining the reasons... Arasse ... brings both a nicely calibrated visual sensitivity and a thoughtful analytical bent to the pictures themselves [and] lay[s] out what he considers to have been a painting program by Vermeer."--Larry Silver, American Historical Review "The most important work to date on Vermeer's theory of painting and his oeuvre. Burnished by the excellent translation by Terry Grabar, this study presents a thoughtful assessment of Vermeer's personal interpretation of the nature of art."--Linda K. Varkonda, Sixteenth Century Journal "This intense, impassioned book reflects the ways in which we continue to be enthralled by the magic of Vermeer's light and deft touch."--Virginia Quarterly Review

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Author's Bio

Daniel Arrase is Director of Studies of Art History and Theory at the Ecole des Haute Etudes in Paris. Among his works is The Guillotine and the Terror.

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