To Destroy Painting [Paperback]

Louis Marin (Author), Mette Hjort (Translator)

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Paperback: 196 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Mar 1 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226505359
ISBN-13: 978-0226505350
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 395 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #476,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( P-R ) > Poussin, Nicolas

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The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-92) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone in Marin's thought about the aims of painting in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A meditation on the work of Poussin and Caravaggio and on their milieux, the book explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion.

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The text that you will read-and that I have just finished writing-traces a trajectory between two paintings, Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds (Et in Arcadia Ego) and Caravaggio's Head of Medusa, between the Louvre and the Uffizi. Read the first page

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