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The Art of Describing - Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback, New edition)
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The Art of Describing - Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback, New edition)
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"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not
only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement;
he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the
centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself.
Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a
splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art
history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a
vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental
dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of
the Dutch masters. . . . Italian art is the primary expression of a
'textual culture, ' this is to say of a culture which seeks
emblematic, allegorical or philosophical meanings in a serious
painting. Alberti, Vasari and the many other theoreticians of the
Italian Renaissance teach us to 'read' a painting, and to read it
in depth so as to elicit and construe its several levels of
signification. The world of Dutch art, by the contrast, arises from
and enacts a truly 'visual culture.' It serves and energises a
system of values in which meaning is not 'read' but 'seen, ' in
which new knowledge is visually recorded."--George Steiner, "Sunday
Times"
"There is no doubt that thanks to Alpers's highly original book the
study of the Dutch masters of the seventeenth century will be
thoroughly reformed and rejuvenated. . . . She herself has the
verve, the knowledge, and the sensitivity to make us see familiar
sights in a new light."--E. H. Gombrich, "New York Review of Books"
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