The blind spot
Subtitle: an essay on the relations between painting and sculpture in the modern age
By: Jacqueline Lichtenstein ; translation by Chris Miller.
Publisher: Published by the Getty Research Institute; Getty Research Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780892368921
Subjects: Sculpture, Modern -- Philosophy; Painting, Modern -- Philosophy
Work titles: Tache aveugle.
Description: "Beginning in the seventeenth century, the greatest French writers and artists became embroiled in an extended debate that turned on the priority of painting or sculpture, touch or sight, color or design, ancients or moderns. Philosopher Jacqueline Lichtenstein guides us through these historic quarrels, showing what was at stake, 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 Rene Descartes, Roger de Piles, Denis Diderot, Charles Baudelaire, Emile Zola, and Joris-Karl Huysmans, among many others. The Blind Spot lets us eavesdrop on a lively and contentious conversation that preoccupied French intellectuals for three hundred years."--Jacket.
Notes: Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: vanity reflected in the mirror; title: Introduction: an enduring hierarchy of the arts; title: A new paragone; title: Artistic disputes and pedagogical debates in the seventeenth century; title: The artist-painter and the philosopher-sculptor; title: Absent color; title: The inward and the outward; title: The death of sculpture; title: The hospital of painting; title: Conclusion: the decline of a paradigm.