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Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2014
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xv, 282pp w endnotes, bibliography and index. One section of eight indexed unpaginated colour plates; seventy-two indexed figures in text. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean, showing mild bumping to corners, small wear to tail. Binding square and not creased. Small quarto: 254 x 178mm. 1st SC printing.
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- Title
- Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso
- Author
- Unglaub, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1107626749
- ISBN 13
- 9781107626744
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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- Art
Torquato Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. The poet's ideas on artistic imitation, novelty, and plot structure and unity, which are exemplified in his epic La Gerusalemme liberata, proved to be fundamental to the artist's conception of narrative painting, culminating in the Israelites Gathering Manna. Offering new interpretations of his works, this book also investigates Poussin's larger literary culture and how this context illuminates the artist's response to contemporary poetic texts, especially in his mythological paintings.
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About the Author
Jonathan Unglaub is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. A scholar of Renaissance and Baroque art, he has contributed to The Art Bulletin and The Burlington Magazine, and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), the Getty Humanities Center, and the Clark Institute.
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