基本説明
Transl. by Mette Hjort. 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.
Full Description
The work of the French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-1992) is of importance to scholars concerned with issues of representation. This text, first published in France in 1977, presents Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments Postscript in the Guise of an Introduction Key Texts Allegory: The Golden Bough or the Theory of Mimesis Questions, Hypotheses, Discourse Readings Denegation The Arcadian Landscape On Nominal Sentences, Fragments, Epitaphs, and Epigraphs A Letter, a Shadow, and an Interpretive Key Theoretical and Methodological Introduction An Analytic Strategy and a Mythical Ruse The Portrait in the Convex Mirror The Medusa Head as Historical Painting Psychoanalytic Interlude Of Light, Shadows, and Narrative Et in arca hoc Notes Works Cited Index