ARTBOOK BLOG

RECENT POSTS

DATE 1/14/2025

Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market 2025

DATE 12/18/2024

BMCM+AC presents David Silver on 'The Farm at Black Mountain College'

DATE 12/8/2024

‘Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel: Evidence’ is back in print at last!

DATE 12/8/2024

The Primary Essentials presents a book signing with JJ Manford

DATE 12/7/2024

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Chloe Sherman on 'Renegades San Francisco: The 1990s'

DATE 12/7/2024

Vibrating with animate intensity, 'JJ Manford' is new from Derek Eller & Harper's

DATE 12/5/2024

New from Sophie Calle and Siglio: 'The Sleepers'

DATE 12/5/2024

The Primary Essentials x Artbook Pop Up

DATE 12/3/2024

Happy Holidays from Artbook | D.A.P.

DATE 12/2/2024

Film lovers, rejoice! 'Sergio Leone by Himself' is NEW from Reel Art Press

DATE 11/28/2024

Happy Holidays from Artbook | D.A.P.

DATE 11/28/2024

This week, we gather!

DATE 11/24/2024

Photorealism lives!


IMAGE GALLERY

"Woman with a Water Pitcher" (ca. 1662) is reproduced from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/15/2023

A new take on Baroque blockbuster, Johannes Vermeer

Painted ca. 1662, Woman with a Water Pitcher is reproduced from Vermeer’s Maps, the Frick Collection’s fascinating new exploration of map renderings in the paintings of the quintessential seventeenth-century Dutch master whose work is currently on view at the Rijksmuseum. Behind the figure in the painting is a print of the Map of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands by cartographer and engraver Jodocus Hondius I. This map "was never meant to represent the most detailed or up-to-date topography of the area,” art historian Rozemarijn Landsman writes. "Instead, it is about the idea, the history, or the possibility of a country. Its content, features, and purpose were determined by the context of an ongoing war, immigration, and the formation of the Dutch Republic. Its function is perhaps best understood as symbolic or propagandist rather than practical.”

Vermeer's Maps

Vermeer's Maps

DelMonico Books/Frick Collection
Hbk, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 128 pgs / 68 color / 30 b&w.

$39.95  free shipping





This week, we gather!

DATE 11/28/2024

This week, we gather!

Photorealism lives!

DATE 11/24/2024

Photorealism lives!

Know your propaganda!

DATE 11/11/2024

Know your propaganda!

Halloween reading

DATE 10/31/2024

Halloween reading

Denim deep dive

DATE 10/27/2024

Denim deep dive

Heads up on 4/20!

DATE 4/20/2024

Heads up on 4/20!