Employing the methodologies of the new art history as well as
some tools provided by poststructuralism, historiography, and
analytic philosophy, Poussin's Paintings offers a novel approach to
the art of Poussin. David Carrier begins with a comprehensive
analysis of Poussin's self-portraits, which provides the starting
point for a critical discussion of the traditional strategies of
Poussin scholarship and for an evaluation of the status of this
artist. Carrier shows that Poussin can be properly understood only
by seeing how his visual and political culture differs from
ours.
Carrier examines the traditional approaches of Poussin scholars,
noting the limitations of their views and showing how they not only
shape our image of the artist but also restrict out ability to
properly grasp his concerns. Carrier also considers the important
conceptual claims of connoisseurs and reveals how their work
invokes an implicit theory of Poussin's development.
Carrier then focuses on a group of paintings concerned with
erotic themes, demonstrating the inadequacy of traditional accounts
of these pictures.
He extends his analysis to a discussion of Poussin's landscapes,
which have a different and more important place in his development
than the older accounts claim.
Carrier places Poussin within the artistic and political culture
of seventeenth-century Rome. He asserts that artists of the time
were concerned with the problem of belatedness and that Poussin
attempted to return to the tradition of the High Renaissance,
reworking images from that tradition in response to his own visual
culture. Carrier argues that Poussin's art is thus best understood
as a response to that setting for baroque art, and he relates
Poussin's work to the later tradition of French history
painting.
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