Organized by Susan Kuretsky, professor of art at Vassar College, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art brings together over ninety Dutch seventeenth-century paintings and works on paper from renowned American collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, in a major examination of themes dealing with the transformative effects of time and circumstance. The exhibition is being seen for the first time at Vassar's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, in Poughkeepsie, from April 8-June 19, 2005 before traveling to two other U.S. museums through 2006. The book includes: S. Kuretsky "Dutch Ruins: Time and Transformation," C. Levesque "Haarlem Landscapes and Ruins: Nature Transformed," W. Gibson "Bloemaert's Privy: The Rustic Ruin in Dutch Art," A. Wheelock, Jr. "Accidents and Disasters," L. Fedele Orr "Embracing Antiquity: The Dutch Response to Rome," E. L̲ffler "Ruins in the Netherlands: The Present Situation."