PDF/ePub The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century - Svetlana Alpers
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
By : Svetlana Alpers
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Book Synopsis :
"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . . Italian art is the primary expression of a 'textual culture,' this is to say of a culture which seeks emblematic, allegorical or philosophical meanings in a serious painting. Alberti, Vasari and the many other theoreticians of the Italian Renaissance teach us to 'read' a painting, and to read it in depth so as to elicit and construe its several levels of signification. The world of Dutch art, by
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Author : Svetlana Alpers
Pages : 302 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0226015130
ISBN-13 : 9780226015132
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