Books by Mark Doty
“He’s very right, that is what still life painting is about: the investment that humans make in things.” Read more...
The best books on The Dutch Masters
Adam Eaker, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Fire to Fire
by Mark Doty
Doty is an exquisite image-maker. His language is so precise and lush. He allows himself to linger over his descriptions, and his poems emerge out of that careful attention. But his work is not all shine (or sequins, as he says in one poem addressed to his critics). I love even more than the rendered image, the engaged, inquisitive mind that animates his vision.
Interviews where books by Mark Doty were recommended
The best books on How to Write Poetry, recommended by Kathleen J Graber
According to Graber, poetry demands that readers and thinkers slow down; just as a poem emerges through careful attention, it demands and recreates that kind of attention within the reader
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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
by Simon Schama -
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Vermeer
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Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market
by Svetlana Alpers -
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Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel
by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
The best books on The Dutch Masters, recommended by Adam Eaker
The best books on The Dutch Masters, recommended by Adam Eaker
The past may be a foreign country, but the world portrayed in the art of the Dutch Masters is not so very far from our own, says Adam Eaker of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. For a society that struggles with materialism and consumption, there are a lot of lessons to be learnt from the 17th century Golden Age.
