Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

by Siri Hustvedt

Book Overview

Bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt's inspired collection of essays on painting is now available in paperback. In Mysteries of the Rectangle , Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin, Gerhard Richter, and Joan Mitchell. Through her own personal experiences, Hustvedt is able to reveal things hidden until now in plain sight: an egglike detail in Vermeer's Woman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568986181
• ISBN13: 9781568986180
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary