Eloquence of Color Rhetoric and Painting in the French Classical Age

"An outstanding book, one of the most intelligent, penetrating, and intellectually rigorous studies of pictorial theory in the literature of art history."--Michael Fried, author ofAbsorption and Theatricality: Painting and the Beholder in the Age of Diderot "Jacqeline Lichtenstein's groundbreaking contribution to intellectual history reconstructs the history of the age-old debate between philosophy and rhetoric, discourse and images, drawing and color, truth and delight. She shows how, in opposition to the Platonic suspicion of eloquence and colour, 17th-century French aesthetics discovers that painting involves deception more than imitation and delight rather than logic. Impressively erudite, Lichtenstein is also a seductive writer. A book about the pleasure of seeing and the pleasure of reading."--Thomas Pavel, author ofThe Feud of Language: A History of Structuralist ThoughtLichtenstein, Jacqueline is the author of 'Eloquence of Color Rhetoric and Painting in the French Classical Age' with ISBN 9780520069077 and ISBN 0520069072.