Travels in Vermeer : a memoir / Michael White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Michael, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White, Michael, 1956-.

White, Michael.

Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675--Miscellanea.

Vermeer, Johannes.

Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

178 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Persea Books, [2015]

Summary:

In Amsterdam, where his travels begin, poet Michael White, reeling from an ongoing divorce and custody battle, visit the Rijksmuseum and unexpectedly discovers the consoling power of Johannes Vermeer's vision in The Milkmaid and other paintings. "A certain chain of events has left me open, on a startlingly deep level, to Vermeer's gaze, to his meditation on our place on earth," he writes. "Vermeer's hushed clarity addresses me, is for me, as I stand here now." Over the next year, White undertakes a kind of pilgrimage-to The Hague; Delft; Washington, D.C.; New York; and London-viewing twenty-four paintings in all, including most of Vermeer's major works. Part travelogue, part soul-searching meditation on love and an intimate discourse on art, this erudite, lyrical memoir encompasses the author's past-his difficult youth, alcoholism and recovery, death of his cherished first wife-as well as the present. At the end of his travels in Vermeer, the future awaits, where "nothing is certain except that everything is changed." Book jacket.

Contents:

Prelude [October] 3

Amsterdam [March] 11

The Hague and Delft [June] 27

Anne [November] 47

Washington, D.C [December] 55

Stephaine [March] 69

New York [April] 83

How It Works 107

London [May] 113

Two Marriage 153

An Ending [May] 169.

Notes:

"A Karen & Michael Braziller book."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780892554379

0892554371

OCLC:

881146195