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A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twentyfive, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decadeslong study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again. Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visitingcasually at first, and then more and more obsessivelythe countrys great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity.Beyond the sainted Rembrandtwho harbored a startling darknessand the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. And through their artwork, he got to know their country, too: from the translucent churches of Pieter Saenredam to Paulus Potters muddy barnyards, and from Pieter de Hoochs cozy hearths to Jacob van Ruisdaels tragic trees.Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuriesdead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was. Why do we make art? What even is art, anywayand what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail? Is art a consolationor a mortal danger?The UpsideDown World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. This is Holland and its great artists as weve never seen them before. And its a sumptuously illustrated, highly personal comingofagestory, twenty years in the making: a revealing selfportrait by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. 50 fullcolor images
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