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DUTCH
PAINTING "This unusually intelligent handbook . . . insightfully focuses on individual paintings and their place within well-formulated conceptual and topical categories." —Library Journal
"Highly intelligent, full of striking insights . . . recommended as an introduction to Dutch painting." —Apollo ISBN 0-500-20167-6 · 197 illustrations |
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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—Claesz'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.