| Edition |
Reprinted edition. |
| Description |
192 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
An invitation to look. Map : the Dutch Republic ; Interpretive possibilities : In luxury, look out -- Making and marketing pictures in the Dutch Republic. Training artists, making pictures ; Map : seventeenth-century Amsterdam ; Marketing, buying, and collecting art -- Texts and images. Iconoclasm and the privileged word ; Words into pictures ; Painters and the genres of literature and art -- Virtual realities. Realist strategies ; Art, science, and illusionism ; Meanings of verisimilitude ; Alternatives to realist representation -- Dutch ideologies and nascent national identity. Fragments of national history ; The Dutch scene ; Global Dutch economy ; Moral economies at home -- Portraiture and the identity of self and community. Gender, love, and status ; Professional and civic identity ; Identities preserved : ironies of portraiture ; Architecture of community -- Artistic authority. Representing selves ; Figuring art ; Reproducible individuality : prints -- Timeline. |
| Note |
"First published in Great Britain in 1996 by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-187) and index. |
| Subject |
Genre painting, Dutch -- 17th century.
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| ISBN |
0300107234 |
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