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Title: A Study of Vermeer by Edward A. Snow, Edward Snow, Johannes Vermeer ISBN: 0-520-07132-8 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Snow Job
Comment: If you like things analyzed in exhaustive detail - to death, actually - Edward Snow's "A Study of Vermeer" is the book for you. If half of what Snow thinks is going on in these paintings is really there, then the mystery of Vermeer's low 30 plus lifetime production of paintings is answered. He was busy spending years planning each canvas to amaze and confound future art historians, critics, and english professors who take a fancy to his work, before ever picking up a brush. Who was Vermeer the man? You won't find it here. What historical, sociological or personal influences shaped his work? Except for brief passing mention of the "vanitas" not a clue can be found in this book. I award him 3 stars because he did motivate me to really, really look at these marvelous paintings to see what he (Snow) was talking about. Oh, and he credited a few of his students for their readings of the paintings during his course on Vermeer at Rice University, which he used in rewriting this expanded volume. Guess he couldn't figure out when the youngsters were serious or just pulling the old professor's leg.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Breathtaking Study of Vermeer
Comment: This revised and enlarged edition is an unusually thoughtful, intelligent and eloquent offering from a scholar of remarkable insight and rare passion. Until I read the book (in one night as I couldn't put it down), I didn't know why I had always liked Vermeer. Dr. Snow's book is a journey of pleasure and discovery. Light, space, colour, desire and luminous revelation fairly crackle with intensity. An historic contribution to the art world, or as Dore Ashton observed, "an authentic contribution to the literature (yes, literature!) of the visual arts".
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Title: Vermeer by Arthur Wheelock, Johannes Vermeer ISBN: 0810927519 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K., Jr. Wheelock, Arthur K. Wheelock ISBN: 0300065582 Publisher: National Gallery of Art Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces by Philip Steadman ISBN: 0192803026 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Vermeer (Basic Art) by Norbert Schneider ISBN: 3822863238 Publisher: Taschen Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler ISBN: 0520049209 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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