To Destroy Painting

By Louis Marin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226505340
• ISBN13: 9780226505343
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"