Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665

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This collection of essays about the great seventeenth-century French artist, Nicolas Poussin, addresses issues including: the artist's practice and theory, his patronage, the reception and interpretation of his work, and his critical fortune at the hands of scholars, artists, and the art-going public. Together, the essays offer the reader not a single, uniform "Poussin" but a series of varied, sometimes contradictory, views of the artist that differ according to the historical lens through which his work is examined.

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Drawings of Poussin
Anthony Blunt
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Then Again,I'm a sucker for Art Books like this one!!

Nicolas Poussin
Elizabeth Cropper , and Charles Dempsey
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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ASIN: 069104449X

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By investigating the important cultural figures who were close to the painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey allow the reader to enter not only the Rome where he lived but also the Rome of antiquity, which he admired and tried to reconstruct. The authors argue that Poussin's works were structured by his friendships, as well as by his study of ancient history and early Christian archaeology, his exploration of the poetry and mystery of ancient places, and his conception of his paintings as gifts rather than commercial objects. By looking into this rich background, they also show how Poussin introduced into his theory and practice of painting a new concept of the inherent expressiveness of form that was quite different from the then prevailing conventions for depicting the passions and affections.

The first two chapters treat Vincenzo Giustiniani, the most sophisticated patron and art collector of his day, whose purpose and rationale for collecting ancient sculpture deeply influenced Poussin and the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy. Among other topics, the succeeding sections take up Poussin's deep readings of Montaigne and his friendships with the poet Giovanni Battista Marino, with artists such as Pietro Testa and Matteo Zaccolini, and with patrons and true friends, among them Cassiano dal Pozzo and Paul Fréart de Chantelou, for whom Poussin painted a special self-portrait, which the artist said stood for "The Love of Painting and Friendship."

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Then Again,I'm a sucker for Art Books like this one!!.......2002-01-24

Anything with enough color photos of Old Masters will get a 5-star from me. My only complaint here is this one has only 12 in color, although there are 165 black and whites. Anyway, a wonderfully written work describing a good bit of the painter's world from about 1600-1665, including the classical Greek influence on many artists of the time, including Poussin. A nice tale of generally nice people (seems unusual) including patrons and collectors, centered in Rome. All in all a beautiful book,despite the lack of color glossies! You can tell that this,like any other Old Master Bios I've read, is a real labor of love for all concerned...If it is too in depth, at times like a PH.D., its still a terrific browser for the above reasons!!

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To Destroy Painting
Louis Marin
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226505359

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The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-92) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone in Marin's thought about the aims of painting in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A meditation on the work of Poussin and Caravaggio and on their milieux, the book explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion.

Sublime Poussin (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

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Sublime Poussin (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Louis Marin
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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ASIN: 0804734771

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“Art history and art theory are inseparable. A history of art can be achieved only through the simultaneous construction of a theory of art.” These words of the eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin suggest why he considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an enduring source of inspiration. Poussin was the artist to whom Marin returned most faithfully over the years. Since Marin did not live to write his proposed book on Poussin, the ten major essays in this volume will remain his definitive statement on the painter who inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary.

At the center of Marin’s inquiry into Poussin’s art are the theory and practice of “reading” paintings. Rather than explicate Poussin’s work through systematic textual and iconographic analysis, he sets out to explore a cluster of speculative questions about the meaning of pictorial art: Can painting be a discourse? If so, how can that discourse be deciphered? Marin’s horizon for interpreting Poussin depends more on the concepts of aesthetic philosophy and the insights of cultural history than on an account of the painter’s career or his relationship with his artistic predecessors. For example, he positions several of Poussin’s best-known landscapes with respect both to French seventeenth-century debates on the question of the sublime and to the philosophical tradition of reflection on the sublime.

Among the topics Marin studies are the tempest as a major figure of the sublime in Poussin’s work, the presence of ruins in the paintings, Poussin’s use of the concept of metamorphosis, and the frequent presence of sleeping bodies in the work. The Poussin who emerges in these essays is preeminently a philosopher-artist whose painterly discourse embodies the limits of thought and of representation.

Nicolas Poussin Paints the Seven Sacraments Twice

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Nicolas Poussin Paints the Seven Sacraments Twice
Tony Green
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Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
Oskar Batschmann
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ASIN: 0948462434

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In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Batschmann 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."Like Poussin's paintings, this is a highly polished work. In prose of great elegance, Batschmann achieves an almost perfect balance between exposition and polemic."—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 Batschmann calls 'tragic landscape'."—The Sunday Times

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Wanted to like this but....
Delightful
The marks of an educated man (or woman).
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St. Agatha's Breast: A Novel
T.C. Van Adler
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ASIN: 0312200196

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Standing in the shadows of the Vatican, the cavernous, decaying abbey of San Redempto, once a community of more than a hundred, now houses only about a dozen and has been forgotten by the church. San Redempto's obscurity is threatened, however, when six of the seven age-blackened paintings of martyrs that have long hung in its hallways are stolen. The remaining painting--depicting the martyrdom of St. Agatha--is identified by Reverend Brocard Curtis, the monastery's archivist , as a long-lost treasure, most likely by Poussin. These events seem destined to bring the kind of attention to San Redempto that many, within the priority and without, have been working for years to avoid.

While Brocard sets about trying to uncover the province of the paintings and solve the riddle of the theft, others frantically work to protect their secrets, resorting to murder, with conspiracy upon conspiracy reaching deep into the church itself. In the tradition of The Club Dumas and An Instance of the Fingerpost, St. Agatha's Breast is a brilliantly written novel, rich in detail and insight, a story of corruption, sexuality, blood oranges, and murder that is enlightening and compelling.

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Wanted to like this but...........2004-06-11

St. Agatha's Breast by T.C. Van Adler was sadly, a waste of time. The only redeeming quality to the book is the plight of preserving the artistic treasures of Rome. All too often because of corruption, greed and apathy, many of Rome's finest artistic landmarks and works get lost to oblivion. Another illumnating aspect is you see how depraved some priests are and all the cases of priests abusing children don't seem as far fetched when you read this book. The plot was convoluted and the characters totally un-sympathetic. I enjoy adult stories like the next person, but the titillation went overboard for the sake of sensationalism.

Delightful.......2004-02-08

This book, and the sequel, are delightful little gems. Yes, as with others, I would love to know the real "T.C. Van Adler", an interesting person I should think. I cannot speak for the Latin, but the English usage is complex and new words abound. The plot is superficial, the novel not deep, but the writing style is enchanting.

One chapter - and all are short - is a wonderful description of the decaying building. Closing my eyes, I could picture this edifice along one of the small Roman streets.

This is a book to keep and re-read for sheer pleasure from time to time. It is fun. It would have five stars had the plot been a bit more convincing, but then again, perhaps the plot is close to truth, and I simply do now how close it may be!

The marks of an educated man (or woman)........2003-07-31

The blurb was enticing, and I like that old Simon Raven, Iain Pears kind of stuff anyway, and there was also a gay theme. Looked good.

The author, hiding behind a pseudonym, was an art historian, aparently, and possibly a high-up in the Catholic Church; a person of education, promising an educated read.

I have to say that I gave up some time after page 100 when I encountered about the fortieth mistake: fons et origens, a Latin phrase which ought to be fons et origo, meaning source, origin, fount of all knowledge, or whatever. The book is full of little phrases and expressions in Latin, Italian and Spanish. Unfortunately there are far too many errors in these to inspire the reader's confidence, which in my case was severely jolted on page 9 or thereabouts, where the expression 'free reign' was used. Mr or Miss Van Adler ought to know that the expression is 'free rein', and is derived from riding horses, and has nothing to do with being a queen.

The plot is highly unlikely, and not really very entertainingly expounded. I immediately wondered how Pius could understand what Manolo and Antonio were saying to each other, given that they speak to each other in Basque, a language which, curiously enough, does not appear erroneously scattered anmong the paragraphs of the book as with the Latin, etc. (see above).

There are also some British people, who speak in extremely odd, unBritish ways, for the author is from the United States, and despite an excellent topographical knowledge of Rome, and for all I know, Maastrich as well, he/she does not quite manage to capture the way in which the English and the Scots talk.

I rarely, having a completion neurosis, leave a book unfinished, but this one has defeated me. The other reviews are quite mystifying and I can only conclude that the reviewers were taken in by the blurb, as I initially was.

You Have To Laugh.......2002-06-26

After reading other reviews of St Agatha's Breast, I realize I've been taking this book too literally. On the surface, it's about a morally bankrupt monastery full of thieves, perverts, murderers, and grotesques -- on the whole, a very unsavory lot. However, if you look at it as absurdist, then I suppose it makes for an entertaining read. I confess (no pun intended) that the frequent references to pedophilia corroborates my suspicion that the practice and acceptance of same was not a deep, dark secret, that many, many people and clergy have known from time immemorial that children have been abused by priests. T.C. Adler is a pseudonym who, according to the book jacket, is "very experienced in both the worlds of art and the Church." Why the anonymity? Sorry, but had I not picked up a more wholesome novel while reading this one, I would have finished it.

I WANT MORE FROM VAN ADLER.......2002-01-16

WHO IS THIS T.C. VAN ADLER?! I WANT MORE. THIS BOOK MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD A NUMBER OF TIMES. I LOVE ZINKA AND HER EXPLOITS. THERE WERE A LOT OF TWISTS AND TURNS THAT KEPT ME WANTING MORE VAN ADLER REALLY KNOWS HIS ART HISTORY AND RELIGION. I HOPE TO READ MORE FROM THIS AUTHOR! HE IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH JAMES PATERSON.

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Nicolas Poussin: The Master of Color
Yuri Zolotov , and Natalia Serebriannaia
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ASIN: 1577171934
Release Date: 2005-01-01

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Autobiographies II: Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, Rose and Crown, Sunset and Evening Star Star
Sean O'Casey
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Pub
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Sean O'Casey, Autobiographies 1
Sean O'Casey
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A complete & diligently compiled literary biography

Sean O'casey: Writer At Work - A Biography
Christopher Murray
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A complete & diligently compiled literary biography.......2005-07-22

Professor Murray, of University College, Dublin, has given the full biography of O'Casey, a shapeshifter as much as his dramatized characters in his name-changing, cap-donning, and ego-tripping (to use a later phrase). Like Roy Foster's massive biography of Yeats, or Anthony Cronin's on Beckett, this work gains much having been written by not only a fine scholar but a Irish writer who knows his country well and can convey it with verve and precision to a broader readership outside academia.

This study blends the literary criticism of Murray, an authority on modern Irish drama, with a scrupulous examination incorporating details from those still living who recalled O'Casey. He supports this by a massive array of primary and secondary sources--the endnotes and bibliography amount to nearly 100 pages. Murray writes for the general reader clearly and sensitively, eschewing jargon in favor of direct, spare, and clear prose. He takes you all the way from late Victorian times to "the new and bland Ireland" of 2004, in a thoughtful chapter on the "afterlife' of O'Casey's current reputation, vs. that in an Ireland that had spurned him, and vice versa, for so much of the 20th century.

With well-chosen illustrations (on the cover, a tellingly posed photo of the man at his most "thoughtful;" a colorful shot of a 2002 Abbey production on the jacket's reverse), this book presents finely-printed but well-paced text. With a careful separation of the man from the very-calculated character who wrote his notoriously "ornamented" six volumes masking as "Autobiographies," the examiner Murray faced a daunting task. How O'Casey, as defiant Communist, served so long the cause of Stalinism, defending it even after 1956 Hungary alienated many of his colleagues, and why he sought exile in Devon and popularity in the US more than in the Ireland for which he had joined in revolt in its "Citizen Army" make for fascinating anecdotes and thoughtful insight that shows depth behind the plays of their creator. As Murray remarks, the subtitle "Writer at Work" has a triple meaning: it refers to his avocation--he only labored as a "working man" briefly; to his efforts behind which he warned off others, as he attended to his "work at hand," and to the "arrogance of the disadvantaged man of talent who knows his own worth."(6) His complexity and self-mythologizing turned O'Casey early on into a toiler who sought to establish a worker's utopia but to keep humanist values that, by their nature, resist authority and oppression.

Also, you find how over his long career he kept producing dramas long after the initial punch of the Dublin trilogy about revolution, like that historical event itself, soured. Why and how Stalinism became his faith? For me, the politics of O'Casey even overpower his drama, and Murray examines both of O'Casey's passions meticulously. The reaction of critics to his work by many reviews quoted widens the context in which and for which O'Casey had to make his chosen living, adapting his romantic yet controversial yearnings into a delivery on stage palatable for a ticket-buying audience to be sustained over a lengthy career.

This predicament makes instructive lessons for what occurs when (like Wordsworth?), one outlives one's youthful idealism but still clings to its more distant warmth and spirit over the decades ahead the young 1916 red rebel never expected he'd face.

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LIFT NOT THIS BOOK IN HASTE: as it will not soon return to rest

Autobiographies
Sean O'Casey
Manufacturer: Macmillan Education Australia
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LIFT NOT THIS BOOK IN HASTE: as it will not soon return to rest.......2007-01-09

Had not Master James Joyce sought "silence, cunning and exile" abroad as an escape from paralysis, but had stayed home to do full battle for his own family's full well-being, had small James Joyce never suffered the profound intellectual, psychological and spiritual trauma of a good Jesuit education from a very tender, impressionable and an early age, he might one day have aspired to write an autobiography as well as this. He might one day have achieved the skill of this record of Dublin life.

When you pick up this book you will not swiftly set it back down. Too hastily it records, quick as the rushing River Liffey, the most brilliant observations, leaving you breathless for more precise information, yet grateful for the wonderful song, as does this writing sing gloriously, sorrowfully, gaily, deeply, full throated, a lusty and a keening song.

This book reads like the RIver Liffey washing its way through dear, dirty Dublin city, flashing brilliant, reflecting all without scorn, carrying her commerce, her sewage, her refuse and the occasional dead body, ever fascinating to regard from over the bridge.

Had Stephan Dedalus himself not sought his lonesome refuge in silence and exile and quiet cunning and inscrutable humor, but thrown himself whole heartedly with all of his might and mind and body and soul into Dublin's life, without paralysis but throbbing with life, he might have hoped to have recorded this present work. Had Dedalus loved, he might have written this book.

Allow this work wash over you like the shining, singing black waters of the River Liffey. Let these waters pass impenetrably, hypnotically, beneath the bridge as you toss bread to the calling gulls below. Watch fascinated these laughing, sobbing, roaring waters pass beneath your bridge as you learn and meditate and reflect, unmoving and still in their wonderful grasp.

You will not quickly let down this book.

Certainly we now require dangling commentary for this song of Dublin. We now need historical texts to supplement our reading of allusions to a history that has been censored, erased, never written, ever oral, but whose speakers now have gone on. Much of this history died under the ice blue cruel pencil of the office of the British Censor at that dark enslaved time, a pencil which so callously and calmly vivisected our living history, and cut out its beating heart alive. Bless for ever the dear and learned and wise and courageous scribe, Sean O'Casey, for what magnanimously little of it he has preserved so well for our benefit herein. No, you will not soon set down this historical, this lyrical text.

Let us rather pursue his clues and singing slight indicationsand recapture our own mighty history, erased by the British opppressor. Let us hold our own history to our greiving, consoled heart like a hero fallen in war, as a babe that is born too soon and is gone, a holding as vain as stopping for our careful examination roaring waters of our mighty mother the River Liffey passing on to the father the sea beneath our dear Dublin bridge.

Take and read, for this is our body. Lift then this book, and laugh, and weep, without full knowledge yet fully illuminated and comforted and consoled and befriended and accompanied by all those who have gone before us.

For, you will not soon set her down again.

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Autobiographies (2 Vols)
Sean O'Casey
Manufacturer: CARROLL & GRAF
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ASIN: B000OL8OZS

Autobiographies I - I Knock At The Door; Pictures In The Hallway; Drums Under The Windows

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Autobiographies I - I Knock At The Door; Pictures In The Hallway; Drums Under The Windows
Sean O'casey
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Autobiographies I: I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway, Drums Under the Windows
Sean O'Casey
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Autobiographies Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, Rose and Crown Sunset and Evening Star

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Autobiographies Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, Rose and Crown Sunset and Evening Star
Sean O'Casey
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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The Autobiographies of Sean O'Casey
Sean O'Casey
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Autobiographies: (2v) I Knock At the Door;

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Autobiographies: (2v) I Knock At the Door;
Sean O'Casey
Manufacturer: MACMILLAN LONDON LIMITED
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