Commemorating Poussin
Reception and Interpretation of the Artist
Published on 6. September 1999
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-0-521-64004-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays on Nicolas Poussin address issues of Poussin's practice and theory, the patronage, reception and interpretation of his work, and his critical fortune at the hands of scholars, artists, and the art-going public. Together, they offer the reader not a single, uniform 'Poussin' but a series of varied, sometimes contradictory, views of the artist differing according to the historical lens through which his work is examined. Written to mark his quartercentenary in 1994, the essays in this volume were originally given as a series of lectures under the auspices of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
52 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
875 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-64004-6 (9780521640046)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: 'Pour la Gloire de France et l'Honneur des Arts': commemorating Poussin c. 1780-1995 Katie Scott; 1. Poussin's thoughts on painting Thomas Puttfarken; 2. Nicolas Poussin: 'Peintre-Poete?' Claire Pace; 3. Poussin's Ecstasy of St Paul: Charles Le Brun's 'over-interpretation' Charles Dempsey; 4. Nicolas Poussin and the art of history Genevieve Warwick; 5. Painting for the French: Poussin, the Fronde and the politics of difficulty Todd Olson; 6. Poussin's giants: from Romanticism to Surrealism Richard Verdi; 7. Anthony Blunt's Nicholas Poussin in context Michael Kitson; Index.