{"product_id":"inventing-falsehood-making-truth-malcolm-bull-9780691138848","title":"Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the philosophy of Giambattista Vico was influenced by eighteenth-century Neopolitan painting\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan painting transform philosophy? In \u003ci\u003eInventing Falsehood, Making Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made--through the exercise of fantasy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJuxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close connections between the arguments of the philosophers and the arguments of the painters, he shows how Vico drew on both in his influential philosophy of history, \u003ci\u003eThe New Science\u003c\/i\u003e. Bull suggests that painting can serve not just as an illustration for philosophical arguments, but also as the model for them--that painting itself has sometimes been a form of epistemological experiment, and that, perhaps surprisingly, the Neapolitan Baroque may have been one of the routes through which modern consciousness was formed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malcolm Bull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691138842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691138848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2014","brand":"Malcolm Bull","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946945478911,"sku":"9780691138848","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_042f5db6-8673-42fb-a494-73048fcfb9a7.jpg?v=1681515850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-falsehood-making-truth-malcolm-bull-9780691138848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}