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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Pictorial boards, 175 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "An in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) life. From psalms and hymns to the operas of Richard Wagner to simple birdsong, music represented to Van Gogh the ultimate form of artistic expression. And he believed that by emulating music painting could articulate deep truths and impart a lasting emotional impact on its viewers. In Van Gogh and Music Natascha Veldhorst provides close readings of the many allusions to music in the artist's prolific correspondence and examines the period's artistic theory to offer a rich picture of the status of music in late 19th-century culture. Veldhorst shows the extent to which Van Gogh not only admired the ability of music to inspire emotion, but how he incorporated musical subject matter and techniques into his work, with illustrations of celebrated paintings such as Sunflowers in a Vase, which he described as "a symphony in blue and yellow." An expansive inquiry into the significance of sound and music for the artist, including the formative influence of his song-filled upbringing, Van Gogh and Music is full of fascinating new insights into the work of one of history's most venerated artists." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. xiii, 444 p. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The author analyzes the power structures of the three Chinas, offering a clear and comprehensive view of the development of an empire in the late 1990s. From one of Europe's most knowledgeable special correspondents in Bejing, a brilliant, groundbreaking study--the first to give us an insider's view of not only the People's Republic but also Hong Kong and Taiwan--and examines the internal dynamics of each part of greater China and possible consequences of their impending reunification. A brilliant, groundbreaking study that examines the internal dynamics of each part of greater China & the possible consequences of their impending reunification. Since the early 1980s, investment money has been pouring into China from Hong Kong & trade has escalated at a rocketís pace. A few years later, the same pattern began between China & Taiwan. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. Minor page misalignment at top of p. 223/4. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. …

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Condition: New. Boudewijn Bakker is head curator at the Amsterdam City Archives and a senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Dutch Golden Age at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of.

Condition: gut. Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): a full catalogue raisonnee In deutscher Sprache. pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. 317p. PBK. B/W Illus. Charting the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Dutch Golden Age. Nr Mint.

Cloth bound with dusjacket, as new !! 1996. 4to. 184 pp. text includ. a full catalogue raisonnee, 31 colorplts., 230 ills. on 187 plts. in b/w. ISBN 9070288168. The long-neglected seventeenth-century Flemish artist Michael Sweerts has been described by art historians as an "enigmatic Dutch Le Nain". Nothing is known about him from the time of his birth in Brussels until his arrival in Rome at the age of twenty-eight. This book traces Sweerts' artistic development: his years in Rome, his return to Brussels to found a drawing academy, his subsequent move to Amsterdam, and finally his decision, towards the end of his life, to join a French missionary society and travel to the Far East.Sweerts' idiosyncratic methods reveal a continual struggle to reconcile the academic principles he so willingly adopted with the Dutch art of his Netherlandish contemporaries in Rome, especially the Bamboccianti. He seems to have been constantly influenced by French art as well, in particular by the Le Nain school. After his return to Brussels, elements typical of Flemish portraiture can be seen in his work, and his subsequent stay in Holland exposed him to contemporary Dutch tastes in portrait painting, to which he increasingly devoted himself. In later years his religious fervour hampered his ability to function in society and perhaps had an adverse effect on his artistic output as well. His constant vacillation between accepted schools - academicism versus genre painting, for example - eventually led him to develop an eclectic but alluring style which was all his own. 777 g. …