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Sublime Poussin

Author: Louis Marin; Nicolas Poussin
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Louis Marin considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an enduring source of inspiration. 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 Marin's inquiry into Poussins art
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Named Person: Nicolas Poussin; Nicolas Poussin
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Louis Marin; Nicolas Poussin
ISBN: 0804734763 9780804734769 0804734771 9780804734776
OCLC Number: 40609047
Description: viii, 267 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Reading a picture from 1639 according to a letter by Poussin --
Description of the image: concerning a landscape by Poussin --
Description of a painting and the sublime in painting: concerning a Poussin landscape and its subject --
Panofsky and Poussin in arcadia --
The classical sublime: "tempests" in some landscapes by Poussin --
Fragments of a walk through Poussin's ruins --
Awakening metamorphoses: Poussin, 1625-1635 --
A gaze rewarded, or Moses saved from the water --
Variations on an absent portrait: Poussin's self-portraits, 1649-1650 --
The sublime in the 1670s: something indefinable, a "je ne sais quoi"?
Series Title: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Other Titles: Sublime Poussin.
Responsibility: Louis Marin ; translated by Catherine Porter.
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Abstract:

Louis Marin considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an enduring source of inspiration. 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 Marin's inquiry into Poussins art are the theory and practice of "reading" paintings. Rather than explicate Poussin's 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?

At his death in 1992, Louis Marin was Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

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