{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-secret-language-of-art","title":"The Secret Language of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvery object in a Dutch still life meant something.\u003c\/em\u003e This book gives you the vocabulary back: 86 symbols, each with its meaning and a full-page image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOne symbol. One meaning. One full page.\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Dutch Republic of the 1600s, painters filled tabletops with skulls, burned-down candles, hourglasses, coins and flowers past their bloom. Buyers read those objects the way we read a sentence. Four hundred years later, most of us walk past the message. Every entry in this book is a single object, shown large and explained in plain language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e86 symbols from the Dutch vanitas tradition: skulls and timepieces, flowers and fruit, instruments, books, vessels, scrolls.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocumented meanings only. Later inventions, like the Victorian language of flowers, are left out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA full-page image for every entry, on black, so each object gets the room a painter would have given it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA coffee table book. Open it anywhere, read one entry, close it. Or read it straight through.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter you read it, you will see the old paintings differently, tell a documented meaning from a modern guess, and be able to compose meaningful images of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 8.5 x 8.5 in, 190 pages, full color. By Adam Gedney, fine art photographer, Huntington, West Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68173596721301,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/2004\/1877\/files\/book-front-cover.jpg?v=1794000261"}],"url":"https:\/\/book.adamgedney.art\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"Adam Gedney","version":"1.0","type":"link"}