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Item Number: 131547
Title: FRANS HALS
Author: Slive, Seymour
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780714867557
Description: London-New York: Phaidon, 2014. 29cm., hardcover, 400pp., ca. 400 color illus. English text. Summary: In this volume the author discusses Hals’s work, his development and the significance of his achievement, and relates the little that is known about his life, and the reactions of his contemporaries to his art. In presenting the historical background the author ranges widely and includes such diverse topics as social customs, the organization of Dutch militia companies, the activities of Hals’s patrons, contemporary fashion, and the taste for allegories and symbolic meaning in the art and literature of the time. Although the author's major emphasis is on Hals’s pictorial accomplishment, it may be said that he has also succeeded in reconstructing from the artist's work the everyday life of an epoch – a rare achievement in art-historical literature. This monograph of more than 400 images also contains comparative illustrations: some details from Hals’s pictures, but mainly paintings, drawings and engravings by his predecessors and contemporaries, as well as acritical account of the artist’s paintings, of copies, and of lost works, many of which are known from engravings made during his lifetime. The impact of his work on some of his successors is also noted. With the publication of this comprehensive book, a broad rediscovery of Frans Hals’s supreme mastery can be made.
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