{"product_id":"to-destroy-painting-9780226505343","title":"To Destroy Painting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036551250263,"sku":"9780226505343","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226505343.jpg?v=1750932343","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-destroy-painting-9780226505343","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}