The Upside-Down World: Meetings With Dutch Masters Benjamin Moser Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

Arriving As A Young Writer In An Ancient Dutch Town Benjamin Moser Found Himself Visiting—Casually At First And Then More Obsessively—The Country’s Great Museums Inside These Old Buildings He Discovered The Remains Of Golden Age Began To Unearth Strange Inspiring Terrifying Stories Artists Who Gave Shape One Most Luminous Moments History Human Creativity Beyond Sainted Rembrandt—Who Harbored Startling Darkness—And Mysterious Vermeer Whose True Subject It Turned Out Was Lurking Plain Sight Got Know Whole Galaxy Geniuses: Doomed Virtuoso Carel Fabritius Anguished Wunderkind Jan Lievens Deaf Prodigy Hendrik Avercamp Through Their Artwork Country Too: From Translucent Churches Pieter Saenredam Paulus Potter’s Muddy Barnyards De Hooch’s Cozy Hearths Jacob Van Ruisdael’s Tragic Trees Year After Tried Make Life For Netherlands Friends Among Centuries-Dead That They Too Were Struggling With Same Questions Why Do We Art? What Even Is Art Anyway—And Artist? Does Mean Succeed Artist Fail? Consolation—Or Mortal Danger? Upside-Down World Invitation Ask Turn Them On Heads: Look Again This Holland Its We’ve Never Seen Before It’s Sumptuously Illustrated Highly Personal Coming-Of-Age-Story Twenty Years Making: Revealing Self-Portrait By Acclaimed Writers His Generation Σελίδες: 400 Διαστάσεις: 15 7X15 7Cm