In the canon
Vermeer
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1952
- Pages
- Pages 160
A painter writes about Vermeer and argues that the mystery of those quiet rooms is a refusal: the painter holds back from his people and their stories and gives himself only to how the light falls, so seeing itself becomes the subject.
The vicissitudes of his reputation are a warning; the truth is that Vermeer with his incomparable evasive talent has eluded us.
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