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Los Angeles is a city on the Pacific Rim where things appear on edge, for they lack a permanent footing even while occupying a specific locale. The city's genius loci produces this dual vision of fixed place in a state of constant dislocation. It is only appropriate for the edge-bound Getty Center to initiate a series of publications that aim to expose the historical study of artifacts to the oscillation of rigorous debate. Each of these books proceeds from a specific body of historical material, not because that material is in itself inherently imbued with controversy but because its exposure to different disciplinary approaches raises new questions of interpretation. In the realm of historical studies, issues often emerge at the intersection of the various perspectives scholars have constructed for the examination of their subjects. As their debate refracts and refocuses the material under scrutiny, it also invites reflection upon itself and thereby exposes the assumptions and tendencies of scholarship to no less assiduous criticism than it does the underpinnings of its subjects. Volumes in the series ISSUES & DEBATES will result from symposia and lecture series, as well as from commissioned writings. Their scholarly editors are invited to frame highly focused essays with introductions, commentaries, and/or sources, documents, and illustrations that further contribute to their usefulness. ISSUES & DEBATES A Series of the Getty Center Publication Programs Julia Bloomfield, Kurt W. Forster, Thomas K Reese, Editors This page intentionally left blank Art in history History in art The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities Distributed by the University of Chicago Press ISSUES & DEBATES Art in history History in art Studies in seventeenth-century Dutch culture Edited by David Freedberg and Jan de Vries Art in History/History in Art Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture Edited by David Freedberg and Jan de Vries This volume, the first title in the series ISSUES & DEBATES, evolved from the symposium entitled "Art in History: History in Art," which was held at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California, 30 April-2 May 1987. The Getty Center Publication Programs Julia Bloomfield, Kurt W. Forster, Thomas F. Reese, Editors Lynne Hockman, Michelle Ghaffari, Hadley Soutter, Manuscript Editors Copy Editor, Lois Nesbitt Consultant for Dutch Language, Anne-Mieke Halbrook Translators for essays by Eric J. Sluijter and Lyckle de Vries, Kist Kilian Communications Cover: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Danae, 1636. Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum. Published by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA 90401-1455 © 1991 by The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities All rights reserved. Published 1991 Printed in the United States of America 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 7654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Art in history/history in art : studies in seventeenth-century Dutch culture / edited by David Freedberg and Jan de Vries. p. cm. - (Issues &. debates) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89236-201-4 : $55.00. - ISBN 0-89236-200-6 (pbk.) : $29.95 1. Art and society-Netherlands. 2. Realism in art-Netherlands. 3. Painting, Dutch. 4. Painting, Modern-17th-18th centuries-Netherlands. 5. Netherlands-Civilization-17th century. 6. Netherlands-Intellectual life-17th century. I. Freedberg, David. II. De Vries, Jan, 1943 Nov. 14- III. Title: Art in history. IV. Title: History in art. V. Series. N72.S6A746 1991 701'.03'0949209032-dc20 91-13351 CIP CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction Jan de Vries 7 Art in History Gary Schwartz 17 History in Art /. W. Smit PART I: ART AND REALITY 29 Market Scenes As Viewed by an Art Historian Linda Stone-Ferrier 59 Market Scenes As Viewed by a Plant Biologist Willem A. Brandenburg 75 Marine Paintings and the History of Shipbuilding Richard W. Unger 95 Skies and Reality in Dutch Landscape John Walsh 119 Some Notes on Interpretation E. de Jongh 139 Are These Girls Really So Neat? On Kitchen Scenes and Method Jochen Becker 175 Didactic and Disguised Meanings? Several Seventeenth-Century Texts on Painting and the Iconological Approach to Northern Dutch Paintings of This Period Eric J. S luij ter 209 The Changing Face of Realism Lyckle de Vries PART II: ART, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY 249 Art History Jan de Vries 285 The Volume and Value of Paintings in Holland at the Time of the Dutch Republic Ad van der Woude 331 Works of Art in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: An Analysis of Subjects and Attributions John Michael Montias CONCLUSION 377 Science, Commerce, and Art: Neglected Topics at the Junction of History and Art History David Freedberg 429 Biographical Notes on the Authors 431 Index
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