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Sublime Poussin (Paperback)
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Sublime Poussin (Paperback)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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"Art history and art theory are inseparable. A history of art can
be achieved only through the simultaneous construction of a theory
of art." These words of the eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin
suggest why he considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas
Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an
enduring source of inspiration. Poussin was the artist to whom
Marin returned most faithfully over the years. Since Marin did not
live to write his proposed book on Poussin, the ten major essays in
this volume will remain his definitive statement on the painter who
inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary.
At the center of Marins inquiry into Poussins art are the theory
and practice of "reading" paintings. Rather than explicate Poussins
work through systematic textual and iconographic analysis, he sets
out to explore a cluster of speculative questions about the meaning
of pictorial art: Can painting be a discourse? If so, how can that
discourse be deciphered? Marins horizon for interpreting Poussin
depends more on the concepts of aesthetic philosophy and the
insights of cultural history than on an account of the painters
career or his relationship with his artistic predecessors. For
example, he positions several of Poussins best-known landscapes
with respect both to French seventeenth-century debates on the
question of the sublime and to the philosophical tradition of
reflection on the sublime.
Among the topics Marin studies are the tempest as a major figure of
the sublime in Poussins work, the presence of ruins in the
paintings, Poussins use of the concept of metamorphosis, and the
frequent presence of sleeping bodies in the work. The Poussin who
emerges in these essays is preeminently a philosopher-artist whose
painterly discourse embodies the limits of thought and of
representation.
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