Mariet Westermann
Auteur de A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718
A propos de l'auteur
Mariet Westermann is Associate Director of Research and Academic Programs, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and earlier taught at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Œuvres de Mariet Westermann
Anthropologies of Art (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts) (2004) — Directeur de publication — 16 exemplaires
Rembrandt creates Rembrandt : art and ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631 (2000) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Sound, Silence, and Modernity in Dutch Pictures of Manners: The Watson Gordon Lecture 2007 (2010) 4 exemplaires
Mariet Westermann: A Worldly Art : The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718 (Paperback); 2005 Edition (1672) 1 exemplaire
De schilderkunst van de Republiek 1585 - 1717 1 exemplaire
A Worldly Art 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day (1997) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
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The book was published by Rijksmuseum, where much of his art is kept. Thus, it reads like a visual guide to the museum tour. The text portions are immensely flowery descriptions of the work and the works themselves are presented in the order that you can see them at the museum. As such, I would very much like to go and meet my 20 year old self who wanted to know more about Vermeer after falling in love with his art and chastise him for not checking that there would be something entirely new in the text you spent roughly $20 on.
Stylistically, the book best represents the sections of an art history thesis discussing Vermeer's work. It starts with a basic description of the works in question, launches into the significance of the paintings with brief understandings of the history surrounding Vermeer at the time, and finishes in the most thematically self-satisfied way by explaining how important these works were for the future. Maybe it is my history background, but explaining how important you are to history is something that she discussed briefly at the end and not cover most of the final third of the book. Next time, I will buy a Taschen product regarding Vermeer since that should increase the odds of giving me historical context and artistic perspectives. This book is strictly for people who have never been to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and even then you could probably get the same result from a PBS episode.… (plus d'informations)