Author

Contributions

  • Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665. - Contributor

Publication

1999 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

66,750 words, Guess

Page Count

267 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL31288M
  • ISBN-100804734763
  • OCLC Control Number40609047
  • Library of Congress Control Number99011562
  • LibraryThing9572
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  • Goodreads4570491

Classifications

  • DDC759.4
  • LCCND553.P8 M3413 1999

Description

"Louis Marin considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an enduring source of inspiration. Since Marin did not live to write his proposed book on Poussin, the ten major essays in this volume will remain his definitive statement on the painter who inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary."--BOOK JACKET. "At the center of Marin's inquiry into Poussins art are the theory and practice of "reading" paintings. Rather than explicate Poussin's work through systematic textual and iconographic analysis, he sets out to explore a cluster of speculative questions about the meaning of pictorial art: Can painting be a discourse? If so, how can that discourse be deciphered?"--BOOK JACKET. "At his death in 1992, Louis Marin was Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Other Editions

  • Sublime PoussinStanford University Press1999

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