Dutch painting / R.H. Fuchs
by Fuchs, Rudi
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- ISBN 10
- 0500201676
- ISBN 13
- 9780500201671
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London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. 1st Edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 216 pages: illustrations (some color), portraits; 22 cm. Contents: Invention and narrative style: the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Virtue explained: genre painting in the seventeenth century -- Classic histories: history painting in the seventeenth century -- Images of pride: types of portraiture -- The world as image: seventeenth-century landscape and still-life -- Subject and style: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Another order: twentieth-century developments. Summary: The book reviews the development of Dutch art from the foundation of Netherlandish realism in the fifteenth century with the Van Eycks, through the elevated style of Renaissance history painting, the language of symbols of the seventeenth century and the work of its masters, on through the eighteenth and nineteenth century realism, right up to Van Gogh's pioneering Expressionism, and the radical simplification of Mondrian, and the present-day art of Dibbets and Brouwn. Subjects: Painting, Dutch. Painting Ca. 1400-1975 Critical studies. Painting, Modern. Painting, Modern Netherlands. Netherlands Holland painting history. Dutch painting. Dutch painting: history Painting Netherlands.
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- Title
- Dutch painting / R.H. Fuchs
- Author
- Fuchs, Rudi
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0500201676
- ISBN 13
- 9780500201671
- Publisher
- London: Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
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