Looking at seventeenth-century Dutch art : realism reconsidered / Wayne Franits.

Author/creator Franits, Wayne E.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Descriptionxviii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

Contents On the history of research concerning the interpretation of Dutch painting / Konrad Renger -- A seventeenth-century theory of art : nature and practice / J.A. Emmens -- Realism and seeming realism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / Eddy de Jongh -- Picturing Dutch culture / Svetlana Alpers -- Tobacco, social deviance, and Dutch art in the seventeenth century / Ivan Gaskell -- Didactic and disguised meanings? several seventeenth-century texts on painting and the iconological approach to Dutch paintings of this period / Eric J. Sluijter -- Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting : a reassessment of some current hypotheses / Peter Hecht -- Ter Borch's ladies in satin / Alison McNeil Kettering -- Style in Dutch art / Walter Liedtke -- Naturalism as convention : subject, style, and artistic self-consciousness in Dutch landscape / Lawrence O. Goedde -- Natural artifice and material values in Dutch still life / Celeste Brusate -- The three-quarter length life-sized portrait in seventeenth-century Holland : the cultural functions of Tranquillitas / Ann Jensen Adams -- How to sit, stand, and walk : toward a historical anthropology of Dutch paintings and prints / Herman Roodenburg -- The space of gender in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / Elizabeth Alice Honig.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-268) and index.
LCCN 96036607
ISBN0521496098 (hardcover)
ISBN0521499453 (pbk.)