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The Eloquence of Color: Rhetoric and Painting in the French Classical Age (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) - Hardcover
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In this richly suggestive contribution to the theory of art, Jacqueline Lichtenstein discusses the importance of color in reconciling ancient differences between rhetoric and painting. The visible world had been suspect since Plato accused the Sophists of relying on rhetorical show, of being in effect makeup artists. Before the 17th century, these differences were manifest in a valorization of design over color.
But in the 17th century, the image suddenly...
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"An outstanding book, one of the most intelligent, penetrating, and intellectually rigorous studies of pictorial theory in the literature of art history."—Michael Fried, author of Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and the Beholder in the Age of Diderot
"Jacqeline Lichtenstein's groundbreaking contribution to intellectual history reconstructs the history of the age-old debate between philosophy and rhetoric, discourse and images, drawing and color, truth and delight. She shows how,...
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"An outstanding book, one of the most intelligent, penetrating, and intellectually rigorous studies of pictorial theory in the literature of art history." (Michael Fried, author of Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and the Beholder in the Age of Diderot)
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0520069072
- ISBN 13 9780520069077
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages282
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