Title Vermeer's wager : speculations on art history, theory and art museums / Ivan Gaskell

Published London : Reaktion, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Essays in art and culture Essays in art and culture Contents Vermeer's Wager Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Problems; 2 Images; 3 Objects; 4 Copies; 5 Etchings; 6 Photographs; 7 Commodities; 8 Donors; 9 Therapeutics; 10 Subjects; References; Photographic Acknowledgements Summary Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675. Young woman standing at a virginal. SUBJECT Young woman standing at a virginal (Vermeer, Johannes) fast Subject Art museums. Art appreciation. Art -- History. Art -- Museums art history. ART -- History -- General. Art Art appreciation Art museums Reproducties. Interpretatie. Artes (apreciação) Artes (história e crítica) Museus de arte. Art -- Musées. Art -- Histoire. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781861897435 186189743X 1282796097 9781282796096 9786612796098 661279609X

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