The rhetoric of perspective
Subtitle: realism and illusionism in seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting
By: Hanneke Grootenboer.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Still-life painting, Dutch -- 17th century; Visual perception; Realism in art -- Netherlands
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the thought of painting; title: The invisibility of depth: Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, and the lure of painting; title: Truth in breakfast painting: horror vacuI versus the void and Pascal's geometrical rhetoric; title: The rhetoric of perspective: Panofsky, Damisch, and anamorphosis; title: Perspective as allegorical form: vanitas painting and Benjamin's allegory of truth; title: Conclusion: the look of painting.