The blind spot
an essay on the relations between painting and sculpture in the modern age
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Author
Publication
2008 - Published by the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
Language
English
Word Count
53,750 words, Guess
Page Count
215 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveblindspotessayon0000lich
- ISBN-100892368926
- ISBN-139780892368921
- Library of Congress Control Number2007044765
- OCLC Control Number180190906
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780892368921
- Better World BooksP8-BSK-051
- Open LibraryOL22498775M
Classifications
- DDC730.1
- LCCNB1137 .L5313 2008
- LCCNB1137.L5313 2008
Description
"Beginning in the seventeenth century, the greatest French writers and artists became embroiled in an extended debate that turned on the priority of painting or sculpture, touch or sight, color or design, ancients or moderns. Philosopher Jacqueline Lichtenstein guides us through these historic quarrels, showing what was at stake, decoding the key terms of the heated discussions, and revealing how the players were influenced by the concurrent explosion of scientific discoveries concerning the senses of sight and touch. Drawing on the work of Rene Descartes, Roger de Piles, Denis Diderot, Charles Baudelaire, Emile Zola, and Joris-Karl Huysmans, among many others. The Blind Spot lets us eavesdrop on a lively and contentious conversation that preoccupied French intellectuals for three hundred years."--Jacket.
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