Main entry:

Hollander, Martha.

Title & Author:

An entrance for the eyes : space and meaning in seventeenth-century Dutch art / Martha Hollander.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.

Description:

xvi, 263 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint

Notes:
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.
1: Karel van Mander: The Doorsien and the language of space -- "An entrance for the eyes" -- Images in conversation -- Into the seventeenth century -- Ideas of order -- 2: Gerard Dou: The reconfigured emblem -- Foreground and background -- An art of surfaces -- Drape and curtain -- The space of emblems -- Uses of the background scene -- Pictures within pictures -- An empty room -- 3: Nicolaes Maes: Space as domestic territory -- The eavesdroppers -- Pictorial space at mid-century -- Re-creating the Dutch interior -- Mistresses and maids -- Diligence and desire -- 4: Pieter de Hooch: Indoors and out -- Figures in a courtyard -- Home and cityscape -- Masculine and feminine spaces -- Privacy and community -- Exchanges at the doorway -- Public interiors.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520221354 (alk. paper)
9780520221352 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Painting, Dutch 17th century.
Space (Art)
Espace (Art)
Painting, Dutch
Malerei
Raumdarstellung
Schilderkunst.
Ruimtelijke waarneming.
Niederlande

Added entries:

Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220977
Call No.: ND646 .H6 2001
Status: Available