Dutch Painting (World of Art)

By Rudolf H. Fuchs

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 - Claisz'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. --Noord Nederlandse Boekhandel

Vermeer

By Lawrence Gowing & Johannes Vermeer

"Brilliant analysis. . . . Must surely rank as one of the most profound interpretations of a painter ever written." --Burlington Magazine

"It is, as we would expect, a painter's approach, but it is widened by the recognition that any artist's work is governed by the psychological nature of the artist himself. . . . A piece of first-rate scholarship and aesthetic understanding." --Apollo

"Widely regarded as the most perceptive study of the painter." --New York Review of Books