Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention

Author:   Angela Ho
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
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Volume:   1
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9789462982970


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 June 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Angela Ho
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Edition:   0
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9789462982970


ISBN 10:   946298297
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Winner of the 2017 Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) Awards on Northern Art!


Ho's thesis is a compelling one that goes far in explaining the readily observable phenomena of repetition and invention in seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. - Wayne Franits, Syracuse University, CAA Reviews April 2018. Read the full review http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3322#.WvASvaSFNhF >here. [-][-] [-][-]Winner of the 2017 Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) Awards on Northern Art!


This book offers a vigorous analysis of iteration as stratagem within the painter's arsenal. (...) Ho is to be commended for bringing fresh insights to what has often been a conventional interpretation of repetition and invention in relation to a slew of pictures with which we are now newly acquainted. - Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 2019, Alistair Watkins[-][-] Citing the repetition of motifs and subjects in Dutch Golden Age art as evidence of a conservative, market-driven conventionality has long been a commonplace, yet the nature of convention and repetition is not in actuality self-evident. Angela K. Ho's *Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention* offers a fresh interrogation of repetition as an artistic strategy [...] The result is a book that often hovers attentively over the connoisseur's shoulder but lingers longest and most satisfyingly at the painter's side. - Elisabeth Berry Drago, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXXI I, No. 3[-][-] Ho's thesis is a compelling one that goes far in explaining the readily observable phenomena of repetition and invention in seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. - Wayne Franits, Syracuse University, CAA Reviews April 2018. Read the full review http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3322#.WvASvaSFNhF >here. [-][-]Winner of the 2017 Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) Grant on Northern Art!


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Angela K. Ho is Assistant Professor of Art History at George Mason University, USA.

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