Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-historical Methodology

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Penn State Press, 1993 - 276 pages
 

Contents

Originality and Repetition in Poussin Scholarship
47
On the Philosophy of Connoisseurship
85
Blindness and the Representation of Desire
105
Poussin Arcadia and Landscape Painting
145
The Politics of History Painting
175
A Classical Artist in a Society of the Spectacle
207
From History Painting to the Prose of the World
245
Bibliography
267
Index
270
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