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Dutch art spans the history of Western easel painting from the Middle Ages to the present, and has a psychological development of its own which makes it a fascinating field of study. With a fresh and critical eye, Fuchs reviews its evolution 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--Claesz's still-lifes, the portraits of Hals and Rembrandt, and Ruisdael's landscapes--and on through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century realism, right up to Van Gogh's pioneering Expressionism, the radical simplification of Mondrian, and the art of Dibbets and Brouwn. 197 illus., 20 in color.
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Oxford University Press; World of Art Ser., New York and Toronto, 1978
ISBN 10: 0195200608
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 216 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** A survey of Dutch painting from the Northern Renaissance to the present. *** 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. Size: 8vo. Collectible. Seller Inventory # 117628