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Bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt's inspired collection of essays on painting is now available in paperback.
In Mysteries of the Rectangle, Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin, Gerhard Richter, and Joan Mitchell. Through her own personal experiences, Hustvedt is able to reveal things hidden until now in plain sight: an egglike detail in Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace and the many hidden self-portraits in Goya's series of drawings, Los Caprichos, as well as in his famous painting The Third of May.
Most importantly, these essays exhibit the passion, thrill, and sheer pleasure of bewilderment a work of art can produce if you simply take the time to look.
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