Daniel Arasse
Vermeer: Faith in Painting. 
Princeton University Press, 1993. Second printing. Translation by Terry Grabar of "L'ambition de Vermeer" (Société nouvelle Adam Biro, 1993). 069102930X xiii/136 pages. 
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name appears at top of half title page. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with plates offering b&w and color reproductions of the Dutch painter. 
"Through a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, Daniel Arasse explores the originality of this artist in the context of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Arguing that Vermeer was not a painter in the conventional, commercial sense of his Dutch colleagues, Arasse suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal and ambitious effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art."