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Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisThe 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.
LC Classification NumberND1140.M3413 1995