David S. Areford and Nina A. Rowe
Ashgate
Hardback
362
2004
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.
Ashgate
Hardback
362
2004
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.