Word: hoogstraeten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peep shows were much sought after: the master of this taxing form was the Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraeten, who around 1655 constructed a perspectyfkas, or perspective cabinet, a whole miniature Dutch interior to be viewed through eyeholes. So complete is the illusion that one cannot guess, without taking the lid off the box, that these stable objects- the chair, the dog, the tile floor - that seem to have the clearness and density of the real world are painted flat, a jumble of skewed angles involuntarily assembled...