The Rhetoric of Perspective

Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Hanneke Grootenboer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2005
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-30968-2 (ISBN)

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Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image. Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes a new theory of perspective based on the phenomenological aspects of non-narrative still-life, trompe l'oeil, and anamorphic imagery. Drawing on playful and mesmerizing baroque images, Grootenboer characterizes what she calls their "sophisticated deceit," asserting that painting is more about visual representation than about its supposed objects.
Offering an original theory of perspective's impact on pictorial representation, the act of looking, and the understanding of truth in painting, Grootenboer, shows how these paintings both question the status of representation and explore the limits and credibility of perception.

Hanneke Grootenboer is lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.7.2005
Sprache	englisch
Maße	17 x 24 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-226-30968-1 / 0226309681
ISBN-13	978-0-226-30968-2 / 9780226309682
Zustand	Neuware