Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting
Author:   Malcolm Bull
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691138848


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   08 December 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Malcolm Bull
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780691138848


ISBN 10:   0691138842
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   08 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Prologue xi ONE Vico 1 TWO Icastic Painting 43 THREE Fantastic Painting 69 FOUR Theological Painting 101 Epilogue 121 Notes 127 Index 141

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[A] highly compelling account of an important subject... Bull is to be congratulated on presenting such a thought-provoking study ... welcome addition to the study of early modern art and thought. --Alexander Marr, Apollo


Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth offers intriguing analyses of painting along with acute close readings of Vico's writings with a fruitful interdisciplinary approach. . . . An accomplished, concise, and intelligently focused account. --Maria Fabricius Hansen, CAA Reviews This is a daring and highly imaginative book. --Helen Langdon, Burlington Magazine [A]rt historians and critics will find in it a fascinating account of how paintings can initiate and/or facilitate philosophical reflection. --Giorgio Baruchello, European Legacy [T]antalizingly meaty. --Choice [A] highly compelling account of an important subject. . . . Bull is to be congratulated on presenting such a thought-provoking study . . . welcome addition to the study of early modern art and thought. --Alexander Marr, Apollo


[A] highly compelling account of an important subject... Bull is to be congratulated on presenting such a thought-provoking study ... welcome addition to the study of early modern art and thought. --Alexander Marr, Apollo [T]antalizingly meaty. --Choice [A]rt historians and critics will find in it a fascinating account of how paintings can initiate and/or facilitate philosophical reflection. --Giorgio Baruchello, European Legacy


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Malcolm Bull is university lecturer in fine art at the University of Oxford. His previous books include Anti-Nietzsche, The Mirror of the Gods, and Seeing Things Hidden.

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