| To Destroy Painting Contributor(s): Marin, Louis (Author), Hjort, Mette (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226505340 ISBN-13: 9780226505343 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Techniques - Painting |
| Dewey: 750.1 |
| LCCN: 94020786 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.28" W x 9.32" (0.96 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hjort, Mette: - 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. |