The Rhetoric of Purity
Subtitle: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 26, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521477598
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; 19th Century Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Criticism; Techniques - Painting; Art / General
First sentence: IN A LETTER of September 1888, Gauguin complained to van Gogh of the trouble he was having completing the portrait of Emile Bernard in the upper right of Self-Portrait, Les Miserables (Fig. 1).