Description
About the Author
Alfred Acres is the Wright Family Associate Professor of Art History at Georgetown University, Washington D. C. and is the author of Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy (2013).
Reviews
'By way of clever observations and pictorial analysis, this eloquently written monograph is highly commendable. It offers a concise introduction to the work of one of the most influential Renaissance artists of his time and addresses in eight chapters the career and clusters of Van Eyck's paintings. Alfred Acres presents impressively erudite perspectives and refreshingly balanced views on even some of the most persistent problems in art history like the authorship of the Ghent Altarpiece. It will be welcomed by the general reader and will inspire specialists to think anew.' - Till-Holger Borchert, Director of Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen; 'A wonderful new contribution to the literature on this most extraordinary and engaging of artists. Throughout the pages of this beautifully written book we are offered an excellent synthesis of the long historiography on Van Eyck and a detailed and up-to-date engagement with the most recent research and publications on his work. Alfred Acres invites us to see what this supremely inventive artist was seeking to do with his arresting depictions, and aims to give meaning to the many astounding and delightful details of Van Eyck's work. This is a study not only of Van Eyck as an individual, but of Van Eyck's interests, talents, inventiveness and commitment to communication and signification, by looking not just at, but within the art of Van Eyck.' - Beth Williamson, Professor of Medieval Culture and Chair in the History of Art, University of Bristol
Book Information
ISBN 9781789147612
Author Alfred Acres
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Reaktion Books
Publisher Reaktion Books