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Zusatztext '... a series of extraordinarily richly allusive chapters... The erudition is extraordinary... there is real insight to be found throughout the text... When Peacock scrutinises the Van Dyck self-portrait he is constantly stimulating and provocative... No one has mapped the image as closely as Peacock in his text and it will stand as the definitive account of van Dyck's Self-Portrait with Sunflower...' The Art Book 'Peacock is an engaging and skillful guide... The Look of van Dyck alters and enriches an understanding of the work at its center. Countering a trend in academia for books with ever broader sweep! Peacock demonstrates the complex forms of thought that can be discerned in a sustained study of a single work of art.' caa.reviews Informationen zum Autor John Peacock is Reader in English at the University of Southampton, UK. Klappentext Based on a close study of Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture's context in the symbolic discourses of the period and in the artist's oeuvre. John Peacock analyzes the motif of looking - the ways in which figures regard or disregard each other - throughout Van Dyck's work, and the images of the sunflower and the gold chain in this particular portrait, to reveal what is essentially an idealist conception of pictorial art. Zusammenfassung Based on a study of Van Dyck's "Self-portrait with a Sunflower", this book examines the picture's context in the symbolic discourses of the period and in the artist's oeuvre. The portrait is interpreted as a programmatic statement of his view of the art of painting. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Self-imaging, Pictura, and vision; Looking and seeing; Representing the sunflower in word and image; The sunflower becomes a symbol; The golden chain; The Portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby with a sunflower; The figure of the painter; Conclusion; Appendix: Kenelm Digby, heliotropism, and the powder of sympathy; Notes; Index....
