Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

By Siri Hustvedt

Book Overview

Bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt's inspired collection of essays on painting is now available in paperback. In Mysteries of the Rectangle , Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin, Gerhard Richter, and Joan Mitchell. Through her own personal experiences, Hustvedt is able to reveal things hidden until now in plain sight: an egglike detail in Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace and the many hidden self-portraits in Goya's series of drawings, Los Caprichos , as well as in his famous painting The Third of May . Most importantly, these essays exhibit the passion, thrill, and sheer pleasure of bewilderment a work of art can produceif you simply take the time to look.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568986181
• ISBN13: 9781568986180
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary