To Destroy Painting - Paperback

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.

• | Author: Louis Marin
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 1994
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226505359
• | ISBN-13: 9780226505350