The Rhetoric of Perspective
Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting
246 pages, 24 color plates, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings 6 x 9
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2005
Cloth $35.00
ISBN: 9780226309682
Published April 2005
Paper $22.50
ISBN: 9780226309705
Published November 2006
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Thought of Painting
1. The Invisibility of Depth
Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, and the Lure of Painting
2. Truth in Breakfast Painting
Horror Vacui versus the Void and Pascal's Geometrical Rhetoric
3. The Rhetoric of Perspective
Panofsky, Damisch, and Anamorphosis
4. Perspective as Allegorical Form
Vanitas Painting and Benjamin's Allegory of Truth
Conclusion: The Look of Painting
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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