A Study of Vermeer, Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Edward Snow

Book Overview

Edward Snow's A Study of Vermeer, first published in 1979 and here presented in an expanded and elaborately revised version, starts from a single premise: that we respond so intensely to Vermeer because his paintings reach so deeply into our lives. Our desire for images, the distances that separate us, the validations we seek from the still world, the traces of ghostliness in our own human presence--these, the book proposes, are Vermeer's themes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520071328
• ISBN13: 9780520071322
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.3"