The Vexations of Art: Velázquez and Others by Svetlana Alpers

The Vexations of Art: Velázquez and Others

Svetlana Alpers

308 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction art challenging informative slow-paced
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Velázquez is often considered an artist apart: great, but isolated in a palace/ museum in Spain. This highly original book sets him in conjunction with certain conditions of painting in his time and after.From the seventeenth century to the twenti...

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