To Destroy Painting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226505350)

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.

Author: Louis Marin
ISBN-10: 0226505359
ISBN-13: 9780226505350
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1994
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.08w x 0.71d