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The Netherlands - A Study of Some Aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life (Paperback)
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The Netherlands - A Study of Some Aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life (Paperback)
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Loot Price R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
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In this book Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell, looking at the Netherlands
through his own eyes rather than through those of his many
predecessors, has produced a pic ture of the country which may
appear un orthodox only because of its unfamiliarity. In his belief
Holland, as a country, is as individual as Russia or as Spain, and
there is a great deal more to be seen and enjoyed in it than the
picture galleries, windmills, canals, flower markets and bare empty
churches which seem to have impressed previous writers.It has been
Mr. Sitwell's endeavour to get out of the museums and into the
open-air-out of the museums and, likewise, away from the great
cities (although not without having entered some of the old and
forgotten patrician houses of The Hague and Amsterdam). In this way
the author has discovered a new and beautiful Holland in which the
architecture of the eighteenth century, the strange villages and
costumes of Friesland, or the art of a Daniel Marot and a Cornelis
Troost are taken as truly representative of this at once phlegmatic
and poetical people and the man-made wonders of their largely
artificial country. The result is a book both to awaken curiosity
and, so far as a book may do so, to satisfy it-more especially as
the very numerous photographs go side by side with the text and
illustrate it at almost every point.If the traditionally pic
turesque and quaint appear as seldom among these illustrations as
they do in the text the intelligent reader is presented all the
more with a picture of a country whose proximity and unfamiliarity
will form added inducements to a visit.
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