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Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
Oskar (P Batschmann
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Description for Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
Paperback. Presenting a study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, this title offers a series of connected studies that provide ways of interpreting the work and ideas of Poussin. Num Pages: 166 pages, 89 black & white illustrations, 28 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACN; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 204 x 12. Weight in Grams: 470.
In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Bätschmann presents a series of connected studies that offer new ways of interpreting the work and ideas of this brilliant and complex figure. This superbly illustrated book is a polemical challenge in a field of art-historical research that has often lost its way in insoluble disputes and erudite details.
In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Bätschmann presents a series of connected studies that offer new ways of interpreting the work and ideas of this brilliant and complex figure. This superbly illustrated book is a polemical challenge in a field of art-historical research that has often lost its way in insoluble disputes and erudite details.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780948462436
SKU
V9780948462436
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Ref
99-50
About Oskar (P Batschmann
Oskar Bätschmann is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Art History at the University of Bern. His books include Hans Holbein (Reaktion Books, 1997, Revised and Expanded Second Edition 2013) and Giovanni Bellini (Reaktion Books, 2007).
Reviews for Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
Like Poussins paintings, this is a highly polished work. In prose of great elegance, Bätschmann achieves an almost perfect balance between exposition and polemic . . . knowledge of the vast literature, discussed in useful footnotes, is offset by sensitive visual observations.
The Times Literary Supplement
This is a tough but rewarding book, focusing not so much on the context of Poussin's book - its extrinsic framework - but intently on the work itself, and the attitude of Poussin to his subject-matter, from history painting to the holy family, and what Bätschmann calls tragic landscape.
The Sunday Times
Bätschmann's book is a superb piece of work. His mastery of the existing literature is complete and, in conjunction with detailed visual scrutiny of the paintings themselves, he deploys it with both insight and originality.
British Journal of Aesthetics
[This book is] required reading.
Art History
The Times Literary Supplement
This is a tough but rewarding book, focusing not so much on the context of Poussin's book - its extrinsic framework - but intently on the work itself, and the attitude of Poussin to his subject-matter, from history painting to the holy family, and what Bätschmann calls tragic landscape.
The Sunday Times
Bätschmann's book is a superb piece of work. His mastery of the existing literature is complete and, in conjunction with detailed visual scrutiny of the paintings themselves, he deploys it with both insight and originality.
British Journal of Aesthetics
[This book is] required reading.
Art History