A Study of Vermeer
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A Study of Vermeer
by Authors:
Edward A. Snow , Edward Snow , Johannes Vermeer
Released: 01 February, 1994
ISBN: 0520071328
Paperback
Sales Rank: 153,480
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Customer Review #1:
 Snow Job
If you like things analyzed in exhaustive detail - to death, actually - Edward Snows "A Study of Vermeer" is the book for you. If half of what Snow thinks is going on in these paintings is really there, then the mystery of Vermeers low 30 plus lifetime production of paintings is answered. He was busy spending years planning each canvas to amaze and confound future art historians, critics, and english professors who take a fancy to his work, before ever picking up a brush. Who was Vermeer the man? You wont find it here. What historical, sociological or personal influences shaped his work? Except for brief passing mention of the "vanitas" not a clue can be found in this book. I award him 3 stars because he did motivate me to really, really look at these marvelous paintings to see what he (Snow) was talking about. Oh, and he credited a few of his students for their readings of the paintings during his course on Vermeer at Rice University, which he used in rewriting this expanded volume. Guess he couldnt figure out when the youngsters were serious or just pulling the old professors leg.
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Customer Review #2:
 A Breathtaking Study of Vermeer
This revised and enlarged edition is an unusually thoughtful, intelligent and eloquent offering from a scholar of remarkable insight and rare passion. Until I read the book (in one night as I couldnt put it down), I didnt know why I had always liked Vermeer. Dr. Snows book is a journey of pleasure and discovery. Light, space, colour, desire and luminous revelation fairly crackle with intensity. An historic contribution to the art world, or as Dore Ashton observed, "an authentic contribution to the literature (yes, literature!) of the visual arts".
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