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Hammershoi

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"Painted with extreme economy, Vilhelm Hammershoi's distinctive subject-matter is centred on haunting interiors. Dispensing with anecdotal detail, he depicted his apartment as a series of disturbingly empty, silent spaces. This same disquieting stillness is apparent in his portraits, landscapes and city views of his native Copenhagen and of London, in all of which the passage of time appears to have been inexplicably suspended." This book, the catalogue of the artist's first retrospective to be held in the United Kingdom and Japan, is illustrated with works spanning all stages of Hammershoi's career. Numerous little-knows photographs of the artist, his family and apartments are also included. Intriguing essays and detailed catalogue entries by leading scholars explore the singularity of the artist's vision, examining his links with Dutch masters of the seventeenth century and the painters of the early nineteenth-century Danish Golden Age, and placing his achievement in the context of fin-de-siecle Symbolist art.

Format: Hardcover

Release: July 07, 2008

ISBN 13: 9782754103176

Hammershoi

0/5 ( ratings)

"Painted with extreme economy, Vilhelm Hammershoi's distinctive subject-matter is centred on haunting interiors. Dispensing with anecdotal detail, he depicted his apartment as a series of disturbingly empty, silent spaces. This same disquieting stillness is apparent in his portraits, landscapes and city views of his native Copenhagen and of London, in all of which the passage of time appears to have been inexplicably suspended." This book, the catalogue of the artist's first retrospective to be held in the United Kingdom and Japan, is illustrated with works spanning all stages of Hammershoi's career. Numerous little-knows photographs of the artist, his family and apartments are also included. Intriguing essays and detailed catalogue entries by leading scholars explore the singularity of the artist's vision, examining his links with Dutch masters of the seventeenth century and the painters of the early nineteenth-century Danish Golden Age, and placing his achievement in the context of fin-de-siecle Symbolist art.

Format: Hardcover

Release: July 07, 2008

ISBN 13: 9782754103176

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