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The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters

Maybe someday

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/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

74/100

Critics

4/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Benjamin Moser

Publisher:

Liveright

Date:

October 10, 2023

Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.

What The Reviewers Say

Nicole Rudick,
The New York Times Book Review
Despite pitching the book as a melding of art history and personal exploration, Moser is reluctant to peruse this line of inquiry. In the pages between the introduction and afterword, details about his own struggles are scarce.
Sebastian Smee,
The Washington Post
An excellent companion: conversational and congenial, essayistic and elevating.
Cammy Brothers,
The Wall Street Journal
Moser interweaves personal memoir with observations he has gleaned from years of faithful looking at Dutch paintings.

Kirkus
A luminous, splendidly illustrated melding of art history and memoir.