Christopher D.M. Atkins is assistant professor of art history at Queens College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
"I would give high marks to the book's design and illustrations, as
the simple, easy to navigate layout and excellent color
illustrations are a hallmark of Amsterdam University Press
publications." -- Dennis E. Weller in Sehepunkte. Rezenzions
Journal fur die Geisteswissenschaften.
|"Frans Hals's extraordinary brushwork has long been celebrated
even if its cultural implications have only been partially
understood at best. Atkins's probing study explores the specific
ways in which the painter's brushwork functioned for his
contemporaries, and simultaneously, for himself, both as a marker
of his skill and of the commercial value of his work. Future
studies of Hals, and, indeed, of facture in seventeenth-century
Dutch painting will have to take into account Atkins's many
findings." -- Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History at Syracuse
University
|"Atkins’s book fundamentally changes our thinking about Frans
Hals. Atkins argues, absolutely convincingly, that Hals developed a
‘signature style’, a kind of virtuoso brushwork that both enlivened
his portraits and distinguished his works from those of his
contemporaries. Through sensitive close looking and cogent
analysis, Atkins brings to light Hals’s manner of finishing his
paintings with ‘the master’s touch’, by adding, as the final
strokes of paint, finishing flourishes that activated both picture
surface and sitter." -- Perry Chapman, professor of art history,
University of Delaware
| "Chistopher Atkins is er in geslaagd een nieuwe en zeer
overtuigende duiding te brengen van de zo specifieke "vrije"
schilderstijl van Frans Hals." -- Hans Vlieghe is Emeritus Gewoon
Hoogleraar aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven en auteur van
talrijke publicaties in boek- en artikelvorm over de Vlaamse
schilderkunst van de 17de eeuw, o. m. over Rubens en zijn
school.
|"The Signatures Style of Frans Hals brings together many insights
from different angles, to cast a new, original light on the
features of Frans Hals’s style." -- Frans Grijzenhout, Chair of Art
History of the Early Modern Period, University of Amsterdam
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