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Author
Publisher
Persea Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a divorce (in which the custody of his young daughter is at stake) and over the course of a year, the poet Michael White, travels to Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, London, Washington, and New York to view the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, an artist obsessed with romance and the inner life. He is astounded by how consoling it is to look closely at Vermeers women, at the artists relationship to his subjects, and at how composition reflects...