Gemälde zerstören

Author/Contributor(s):	Marin, Louis ; Hjort, Mette
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	03/01/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.