{"product_id":"crime-and-illusion-felipe-pereda-9781912554096","title":"Crime and Illusion: The Art of Truth in the Spanish Golden Age","description":"According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime \u0026amp; Illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem artists of the Golden Age confronted was not imitation but Truth. Moreover a large part, maybe the best part, of Spanish Baroque religious imagery is better understood as a complex exercise in addressing the spectators' doubts. Hovering on the horizon of an emerging empiricism, artists created their images as pieces of evidence, arguments for belief. Crime \u0026amp; Illusion reconstructs and interprets this judicial or forensic aspect of early modern visual culture at the center of a political, religious, and scientific triangle. Finally, the book explores the artists' skeptical reflection on the problematic relationship of painting and sculpture to the art of truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Felipe Pereda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912554097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912554096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvey Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs","brand":"Felipe Pereda","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47135432540415,"sku":"9781912554096","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_077731fa-6a8f-4896-8e7a-f5f57cd5b438.jpg?v=1755010133","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crime-and-illusion-felipe-pereda-9781912554096","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}