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This text, first published in France in 1977, presents cultural critic Louis Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion.

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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

To Destroy Painting

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 3 January 1995
      ISBN-13 9780226505343
      978-0226505343
      ISBN-10 0226505340
      Also in:
      Art & Photography History of art Paintings and painting Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text, first published in France in 1977, presents cultural critic Louis Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion.

      Table of 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

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