Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice by Benja

Description: Vermeer's Family Secrets by Benjamin Binstock Benjamin Binstock revolutionises how we think about Vermeers work and life. Vermeer is famously a mystery in art: there is scant information on his life and training, and nothing to connect him to any students. What remains is the paintings themselves as well as some historical information and surmise. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeers Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeers work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an abundance of fascinating information about Vermeers life that Binstock brings to bear on Vermeers art for the first time; he also offers new interpretations of several key documents pertaining to Vermeer that have been misunderstood. Lavishly illustrated with more than 180 black and white images and more than sixty color plates, the book also includes a remarkable color two-page spread that presents the entirety of Vermeers oeuvre arranged in chronological order in 1/20 scale, demonstrating his gradual formal and conceptual development. No book on Vermeer has ever done this kind of visual comparison of his complete output. Like Poes purloined letter, Vermeers secrets are sometimes out in the open where everyone can see them. Benjamin Binstock shows us where to look. Piecing together evidence, the tools of art history, and his own intuitive skills, he gives us for the first time a history of Vermeers work in light of Vermeers life.On almost every page of Vermeers Family Secrets, there is a perception or an adjustment that rethinks what we know about Vermeer, his oeuvre, Dutch painting, and Western Art. Perhaps the most arresting revelation of Vermeers Family Secrets is the final one: in response to inconsistencies in technique, materials, and artistic level, Binstock posits that several of the paintings accepted as canonical works by Vermeer, are in fact not by Vermeer at all but by his eldest daughter, Maria. How he argues this is one of the books many pleasures. Author Biography Benjamin Binstock earned his Ph.D. in Art History at Columbia University, after study in Aix-en-Provence, Berkeley, Berlin, and Amsterdam. He was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton and the American Academy of Berlin, and has taught at Columbia, New York University, CUNY, and presently at Cooper Union in downtown Manhattan. Table of Contents Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Its a Vermeer! 1. In Search of Vermeer 2. Origins and Originality 3. Fabritiuss Phoenix 4. An Art of Women 5. Painting and Procreation 6. The Fat Lady Sings 7. The Apprenticeship of Maria Vermeer Appendices Review "Binstock resembles the detective Hercule Poirot in his methodical disentangling of the historical Vermeer from the accretion of too generous attributions and from the multiplicity of critical views, all directed to the uncovering of the artist whose autobiographical immersion in Delft, in home, and in family so fully constituted his art."—Richard Brilliant, Columbia University, author of Portraiture and My Laocoön: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks"Impassioned and fascinating, this novel account of the intimate links between Vermeers art and life bristles with intelligence. It offers not only sympathetic and imaginative readings of the paintings, but questions some basic assumptions in art history. Anyone interested in Vermeer will be struck by Binstocks audacity, erudition, and deep love of art."—Martha Hollander, Hofstra University, author of An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art"Vermeers Family Secrets is a highly original and searching account of one of the most elusive of painters. Written with delightful verve, visual subtlety, and the courage to upend the platitudes and received wisdom of certain forms of art history, Binstocks book promises a revolution in the study of Vermeer, his circule, and his milieu."—Jonathan Gilmore, Yale University, author of The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative of Art History"This book offers strong, informed opinions, bold claims, and precise chronology about one of art historys favorite painters. While Binstocks forceful arguments are sure to be controversial, they will inevitably provoke fresh scholarly discussion and rekindle close examination of Vermeers luminous pictures (and those of Carel Fabritius)."—Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania, author of Hieronymus Bosch and Rembrandts Faith (co-authored with Shelley Perlove) Review Quote "Binstock resembles the detective Hercule Poirot in his methodical disentangling of the historical Vermeer from the accretion of too generous attributions and from the multiplicity of critical views, all directed to the uncovering of the artist whose autobiographical immersion in Delft, in home, and in family so fully constituted his art."-Richard Brilliant, Columbia University, author of Portraitureand My Laoco Details ISBN0415861330 Author Benjamin Binstock Short Title VERMEERS FAMILY SECRETS Language English ISBN-10 0415861330 ISBN-13 9780415861335 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2015 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Cooper Union, USA Publication Date 2015-09-29 UK Release Date 2015-09-29 AU Release Date 2015-09-29 NZ Release Date 2015-09-29 Illustrations 91 Illustrations, color; 133 Illustrations, black and white Pages 472 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternative 9780415966641 DEWEY 759.9492 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:140138573;

Price: 129.36 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2024-12-03T02:54:52.000Z

Shipping Cost: 14.96 AUD