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To Destroy Painting

Paperback • 1995 • English • 1. edition

To Destroy Painting

By Louis Marin

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About the book

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 offer...Show more

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ISBN

9780226505350

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1995

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

To Destroy Painting

Format

Paperback

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