ISBN: 9780691127262

Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the every… More...

Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed. By the mid-1800s, seventeenth-century Dutch painting figured virtually everywhere in the British and French fiction we esteem today as the vanguard of realism. Why were such writers drawn to this art of two centuries before? What does this tell us about the nature of realism? In this beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book, Ruth Yeazell explores the nineteenth century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. After showing how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike, "Art of the Everyday" turns to four major novelists--Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Marcel Proust--who strongly identified their work with Dutch painting. For all these writers, Dutch art provided a model for training themselves to look closely at the particulars of middle-class life. Yet even as nineteenth-century novelists strove to create illusions of the real by modeling their narratives on Dutch pictures, Yeazell argues, they chafed at the model. A concluding chapter on Proust explains why the nineteenth century associated such realism with the past and shows how the rediscovery of Vermeer helped resolve the longstanding conflict between humble details and the aspirations of high art. Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

2008, ISBN: 9780691127262

Princeton u. Oxford, Princeton University Press, Gr. Oktav, Org-Halbleinen mit illustr. Org.-SU, xx, 1 Bl., 252 S., mit zahlreichen sw und farbigen Illustrationen, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar… More...

Princeton u. Oxford, Princeton University Press, Gr. Oktav, Org-Halbleinen mit illustr. Org.-SU, xx, 1 Bl., 252 S., mit zahlreichen sw und farbigen Illustrationen, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy. ISBN 9780691127262. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy ISBN 9780691127262. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy.KUNSTGESCHICHTE art studies [Holländische Kunst] 2008, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

2008, ISBN: 9780691127262

Princeton u. Oxford, Princeton University Press, Gr. Oktav, Org-Halbleinen mit illustr. Org.-SU, xx, 1 Bl., 252 S., mit zahlreichen sw und farbigen Illustrationen, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar… More...

Princeton u. Oxford, Princeton University Press, Gr. Oktav, Org-Halbleinen mit illustr. Org.-SU, xx, 1 Bl., 252 S., mit zahlreichen sw und farbigen Illustrationen, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy ISBN 9780691127262. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy. ISBN 9780691127262. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy.KUNSTGESCHICHTE art studies [Holländische Kunst] 2008, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

2008, ISBN: 9780691127262

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[SC: 12.0], [PU: Princeton u. Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008.], HOLLÄNDISCHE KUNST., Gr. Oktav, Org-Halbleinen mit illustr. Org.-SU, xx, 1 Bl., 252 S., mit zahlreichen sw und farbigen Illustrationen, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. ISBN 9780691127262. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy. ISBN 9780691127262. - ENGLISH: Large octavo, publisher's halfcloth with publisher's DJ, xx, 1 Bl., 252 pp., with several illustrations in color and BW, a well preserved copy. 501 g<