Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir, by Michael White
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“This book is a treasure and a guide. It is a type of healing for the intellect and the heart.” - (Rebecca Lee)
A lyrical and intimate account of how a poet, in the midst of a bad divorce, finds consolation and grace through viewing the paintings of Vermeer, in six world cities. In the midst of a divorce (in which the custody of his young daughter is at stake) and over the course of a year, the poet Michael White, travels to Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, London, Washington, and New York to view the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, an artist obsessed with romance and the inner life. He is astounded by how consoling it is to look closely at Vermeer’s women, at the artist’s relationship to his subjects, and at how composition reflects back to the viewer such deep feeling. Includes the author’s very personal study of Vermeer. Through these travels and his encounters with Vermeer’s radiant vision, White finds grace and personal transformation.
"White brings [sensitivity] to his luminous readings of the paintings. An enchanting book about the transformative power of art." - (Kirkus Reviews)
"… Figures it took a poet to get it this beautifully, thrillingly right.” - (Peter Trachtenberg)
"A unique dance among genres...clear and powerful descriptions touch on the mysteries of seduction, loss, and the artistic impulse." - (Clyde Edgerton)
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir, by Michael White- Amazon Sales Rank: #207751 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x .60" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
Review “An artistic treasure hunt....Following Vermeer grants White another kind of distance, allowing him to vanish into Vermeer''s dream, then return refreshed to his own.” (New York Times Book Review)“Reading Travels in Vermeer made Vermeer’s paintings so emotionally real to me that by the end of the book I felt as if I knew them―as if they were characters in a marvelous novel about lost love, desire, and healing. ” (The Paris Review Daily)“Through his obsession with Vermeer, White has crafted a powerful and affecting memoir that reminds us how art can be salvation.” (Publishers Weekly)“White''s descriptions are sensuous, precise and evocative. . . . luminous readings of the paintings. An enchanting book about the transformative power of art.” (Kirkus Reviews)“A wise and clever book.” (The Sewanee Review)
About the Author Michael White is the author of four collections of poetry and a memoir, Travels in Vermeer (Persea 2015), and has published widely in respected periodicals, including The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, and the Best American Poetry. His most recent collection is Persea’s Vermeer in Hell, winner of the Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award. White teaches poetry and is presently chair of the Creative Writing department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. A Journey of Life and Art By Gail J. Peck I have read countless memoirs, but never one quite like this. The structure is a tour de force in its weaving of an appreciation for Vermeer's art, and the sadness over a divorce, especially because the fate of a child is involved. If the concentration on Vermeer is the larger portion, that can only be because of the sheer joy of White's travels and his love for the art. The failed marriage looms in the background. You will turn each page eagerly to follow alongside in this journey that goes forward and backward. White's poetic eye lingers upon Vermeer's various paintings so that you feel you are standing before them. I have never been to the Netherlands, and yet now I feel I have. I have never been through a divorce, but can imagine the pain. It may be fairly easy to divide up a household, but there is no fair way to decide custody of a child. Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir is a study of both life and art and how they intersect.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. The Art of Vermeer and the Art of Seeing By John Drury When I was in the Army, studying German in the language school in Monterey, I bought a used copy of Aldous Huxley’s The Art of Seeing. I expected the book to explain how to observe and notice things, but it was actually Huxley’s account of how he restored his eyesight. He practiced two exercises, both of which he invented: fluttering your eyelids rapidly; scrunching your eyes tightly and holding that isometric pose.Michael White’s marvelous Travels in Vermeer really does demonstrate the art of seeing, which turns out to encompass the art of feeling, as well as the art of being. The reader learns a lot about Vermeer, such as the interesting detail that “the vanishing point of many of Vermeer’s interiors is marked with a tiny pinhole.” White discovers a couple of those pinholes in his intense but relaxed in-person examinations of the paintings, a scrutiny that reminds me of how Rilke looked at a panther for many hours in a zoo in Paris before composing his poem “Der Panther.”The book is rich in discoveries, such as a moment when White is studying “A Lady Standing at a Virginal” and says “I hadn’t noticed the doubled shadows at first. The patterns of light and shade are too ‘natural’ to make much of an impression. It’s a phenomenon we deal with unconsciously, on a retinal level. In the case of the famous earring, for instance, the eye takes in two brushstrokes—and we fill in the rest unaware.”But the reader also learns a great deal about White, who is movingly open about the Proustian moments of his life. Since he is primarily a poet, it’s not surprising that those scenes are highly compressed and imagistic, such as the story of how his mother kicked him out when he was thirteen, pulling her car into the “strange apartment complex” where his father lived, making him drag his mattress onto the grass, and driving away without a word. White is equally poignant and exact in recounting stories about serving in the Navy, joining A.A., going on dates with two women he met through Match.com, and having his first kiss with a girl named Cheryl on her grandmother’s front porch.In discussing the “pair of ladies at the virginals” in the National Gallery in London, White remarks that “Vermeer offers an anatomy of love, both virtuous and carnal.” But that’s also what he accomplishes in this memoir, in which his gaze at Vermeer’s paintings also takes in his experiences with his two wives. After all, the book begins with a dramatic scene when his estranged and much younger second wife shows up at his house and he looks at her through the four small panes of his front door, not letting her in, even though she’s bearing two vanilla custard pies and her raincoat is “absurdly open on the lightly freckled swell of her breasts.”White points out that there are “moments when the terms of one’s own life are irrevocably changed by simply looking into a lover’s eye, when crazed with love or parting or sorrow.” He goes on to surmise, “What if a painter painted virtually nothing but such moments? What if he held his immense gifts in reserve, solely for such states of recognition? This is what Vermeer did. In the event of our arrival—that moment when, occupied with their music lesson or holding a glass of wine—his women turn and look and almost exclaim, ‘It’s you.’”In London, toward the end of his travels in Vermeer, White arrives at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace near closing time. The attendant at the counter guides him to Vermeer’s “The Music Lesson” and makes the observation, “So you’re a writer, eh? Traveling the world, seeing the Vermeers, and writing a book about it, are you?” It’s a funny, wonderful moment, one of many pleasures in this absorbing book, which I recommend highly.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Dr. White shares his life and travels to see Vermeer Paintings all over the world. By Best Gameplayer Great book by Dr. White, head of Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington, in N.C. After several books of poetry, Dr. White has written a glorious memoir and shared his triumphs, difficult times and the detailed fascination with Vermeer paintings that he immerses himself within in his many travels around the world. Every word and sentence is carefully formed, so read it slowly. Dr. White is brave enough to share his life through very detailed writing, so it is an honor to read this book.
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