Mysteries of the Rectangle Essays on Painting /

• Main Author: Hustvedt, Siri (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Princeton Archit.Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Fine arts.; Cultural and Media Studies.; Fine Arts.

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 si...

Table of Contents:

• The Pleasures of Bewilderment
• Vermeer’s Annunciation
• The Man with the Red Crayon
• Ghosts at the Table
• Narratives in the Body: Goya’s Los Caprichos
• More Goya: “There Are No Rules in Painting”
• Giorgio Morandi: Not Just Bottles
• Joan Mitchell: Remembering in Color
• Gerhard Richter: Why Paint?.