To Destroy Painting
Author:   Louis Marin ,  Mette Hjort
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Edition:   English ed
ISBN:  

9780226505343


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   01 March 1995
Format:   Hardback
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To Destroy Painting


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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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Author:   Louis Marin ,  Mette Hjort
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   English ed
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780226505343


ISBN 10:   0226505340
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   01 March 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Postscript in the Guise of an Introduction Key Texts Allegory: The Golden Bough or the Theory of Mimesis Questions, Hypotheses, Discourse Readings Denegation The Arcadian Landscape On Nominal Sentences, Fragments, Epitaphs, and Epigraphs A Letter, a Shadow, and an Interpretive Key Theoretical and Methodological Introduction An Analytic Strategy and a Mythical Ruse The Portrait in the Convex Mirror The Medusa Head as Historical Painting Psychoanalytic Interlude Of Light, Shadows, and Narrative Et in arca hoc Notes Works Cited Index

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Mette Hjort is professor of visual studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and affiliate professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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