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The Art of Describing, Dutch Art of the Seventeenth-Century
by Svetlana Alpers
- ART & ARCHITECTURE
- 1984
- PAPER
- 273 PAGES
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An original and controversial study that challenges the current en-vogue scholarship on Dutch art. Alpers, a professor at Stanford, castigates art historians' obsession with symbolism and emblems when analyzing Dutch painting, arguing instead that the important aspects of these works often lie on the surface.
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