Overview
- Siri Hustvedt is a best selling author whose books have been reviewed in major media worldwide
- Hustvedt is boldly asserting new theories and observations about Goya’s most iconic works—Los Caprichos and The Third of May
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About this book
In Mysteries of the Rectangle, Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Gerhard Richter, and Joan Mitchell. Through her own personal experiences, Hustvedt is able to reveal things until now hidden in plain sight: an egglike detail in Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace and the many hidden self-portraits in Goya's series of drawings, Los Caprichos, as well as in his infamous painting The Third of May. Most importantly, these essays exhibit the passion, thrill, and sheer pleasure of bewilderment a work of art can produce—if you simply take the time to look.
About the author
Siri Hustvedt is a novelist whose books include Enchantment of Lily Dahl and What I Loved. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mysteries of the Rectangle
Book Subtitle: Essays on Painting
Authors: Siri Hustvedt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-659-9
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Princeton Architectural Press 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fine Arts