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Jan van Eyck : the play of realism
by Craig Harbison
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0948462183
- ISBN 13
- 9780948462184
- Seller
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Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Jan van Eyck's surviving work comprises a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. In a fascinating recovery of the neglected human dimension that is clearly present in these works, Craig Harbison interrogates the personal histories of the worldly participants of such masterpieces as the Virgin and Child with George van der Paele, the Arnolfini Double Portrait and the Virgin and Child with Nicolas Rolin. With the aid of abundant visual evidence in colour and in black and white, Harbison reveals how van Eyck presented his contemporaries with a more subtle and complex view of the value of appearances as a route to understanding the meaning of life. 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. First edition, first printing. Green cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015782
- Title
- Jan van Eyck : the play of realism
- Author
- Craig Harbison
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0948462183
- ISBN 13
- 9780948462184
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
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