Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
Subtitle: Realism Reconsidered
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521496094
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Painting & paintings; Painting; 17th Century Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History - General; Netherlands; Painting, Dutch; Art / General; 17th century; Realism in art
Description: Despite the lively tradition of scholarship on Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, scholars continue to grapple with the problem of how the strikingly realistic characteristics of art from this period can be reconciled with its possible meanings. With the advent of new methodologies, these debates have gained momentum in the past decade.

Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, which includes classic essays as well as contributions especially written for this volume, provides a timely survey of the principal interpretative methods and debates, from their origins in the 1960s to current manifestations, while suggesting potential avenues of inquiry for the future. The book offers fascinating insights into the meaning of Dutch art in its original cultural context as well as into the world of scholarship that it has inspired.