The Blind Spot: An Essay on the Relations between Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age

by Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Chris Miller (Translator)

Overview

Beginning in the seventeenth century, the greatest French writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that turned on the priority of painting or sculpture, touch or sight, color or design, ancients or moderns. Jacqueline Lichtenstein guides readers through these historic quarrels, decoding the key terms of the heated discussions and revealing how the players were influenced by the concurrent explosion of scientific discoveries concerning the senses of sight and touch. Drawing on the work of René Descartes, Roger de Piles, Denis Diderot, Charles Baudelaire, and Émile Zola, among others, The Blind Spot lets readers eavesdrop on an energetic and contentious conversation that preoccupied French intellectuals for three hundred years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892368921
Publisher:	Getty Publications
Publication date:	09/08/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jacqueline Lichtenstein is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne specializing in the history and criticism of art and aesthetics.
Chris Miller is a member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting and a widely published literary critic.

Editorial Reviews

Fundamentally, this is a book about the development of modernity. . . . A timely and welcome publication.”—The Art Book

 “Sumptuously produced, with luscious color plates, and well translated, this work will appeal to a range of readers interested in art history and theory.  Recommended.”—Choice 

“A remarkable account of the fate of sculpture.”—Art Bulletin

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