Vermeer
Reception and Interpretation
Published on 13. February 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-521-65731-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this study, Christiane Hertel interprets the suppositions underlying Vermeer's canonization in the nineteenth century and also addresses the critical problem of locating his paintings in history. The specific concepts guiding critics were developed in the context of a reappraisal of Dutch painting in the nineteenth century, particularly in Germany and France. Based on current as well as historical discussions of a theory of aesthetic reception, her book makes a contribution to the evolving self-definition of the discipline of art history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
8 Plates, color; 54 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 202 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-65731-0 (9780521657310)
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09/1996
Cambridge University Press
€74.28
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Content
Introduction: reception and interpretation; Part I. Idyll: The German Reception of Dutch Art and Vermeer's Paintings of Social Life: Introduction; 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'; Part II. Fiction: The French Reception of Vermeer and the Modernity of Vermeer's Cityscape: Introduction; 4. French travel literature of the nineteenth-century; 5. Art criticism 1859-1913: 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'; Part III. Allegory: The Question of Authority in Vermeer's The Art of Painting and Allegory of Faith: Introduction: 'The Rat and the Snake'; 9. Theories and concepts of allegory; 10. Vermeer's The Art of Painting; 11. Veritas Filia Temporis; 12. Vermeer's Allegory of Faith; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index.