| Description |
xvi, 263 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint |
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Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint.
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| Contents |
1. Karel van Mander: The Doorsien and the Language of Space -- "An Entrance for the Eyes" -- Images in Conversation -- Into the Seventeenth Century -- Ideas of Order -- 2. Gerard Dou: The Reconfigured Emblem -- Foreground and Background -- An Art of Surfaces -- Drape and Curtain -- The Space of Emblems -- Uses of the Background Scene -- Pictures within Pictures -- An Empty Room -- 3. Nicolaes Maes: Space as Domestic Territory -- The Eavesdroppers -- Pictorial Space at Mid-Century -- Re-creating the Dutch Interior -- Mistresses and Maids -- Diligence and Desire -- 4. Pieter de Hooch: Indoors and Out -- Figures in a Courtyard -- Home and Cityscape -- Masculine and Feminine Spaces -- Privacy and Community -- Exchanges at the Doorway -- Public Interiors |
| Notes |
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index |
| Subject |
Painting, Dutch -- 17th century.
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Space (Art)
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| LC no. |
00069089 |
| ISBN |
0520221354 alkaline paper |
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9780520221352 |
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