Vermeer : reception and interception / Christiane Hertel.
By: Hertel, Christiane
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BookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xii, 288 p : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0521657318.Subject(s): Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 -- Criticism and interpretation | Painters -- Netherlands | Painting, Dutch | Painting, Modern -- 17th century -- Netherlands | Painting, Modern -- 18th century -- NetherlandsDDC classification: 759.9492 VER
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.9492 VER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00055250 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 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