TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zell,Michael
TI  - Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
T2  - Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
SN  - 9789048550647
AV  - NX554 
U1  - 700.9492 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Art, Dutch
KW  - 17th century
KW  - History
KW  - Gifts
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - ART / History / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Rembrandt, Vermeer, the Gift, Amateur Artists, Dutch Art, Golden Age
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Gift and Art in Early Modernity --; 2. Art as Gift in the Dutch Republic --; 3. Rembrandt’s Art as Gift --; 4. Art and Leisure: Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representation --; 5. For the Love of Art: Vermeer and the Poetics of the Gift --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a "love of art," not materialistic gain. In the merchant republic's vibrant market for art, networks of gift relations and the anti-economic rhetoric of the gift mingled with the growing dimension of commerce, revealing a unique chapter in the interconnected history of gift giving and art making
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550647?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048550647
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048550647/original
ER  -