The Eloquence of Color: Rhetoric and Painting in the French Classical Age - Couverture rigide

Lichtenstein, Jacqueline

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520069072 ISBN 13 : 9780520069077

Editeur : University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

In this contribution to the theory of art, Jacqueline Lichtenstein discusses the importance of colour in reconciling ancient differences between rhetoric and painting. The visible world has 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 colour. But in the 17th century, the image suddenly becomes an essential agent of thought. Rhetorical colour is revalued along with colour in painting, with cosmetics, and with all that belonged to the feminine, as a sensual force necessary to reconcile reason and pleasure, action and passion. Lichtenstein thus identifies a major shift in European theories of meaning, gender and the relationship between the world and the image.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jacqueline Lichtenstein is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520069072
• ISBN 13: 9780520069077
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible