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Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting
Malcolm Bull
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Hardback. Can painting transform philosophy? This title looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. It presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Series: Essays in the Arts. Num Pages: 160 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; ABA; ACQ; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made--through the exercise of fantasy. Juxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close ... Read more
Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made--through the exercise of fantasy. Juxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Essays in the Arts
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691138848
SKU
V9780691138848
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About Malcolm Bull
Malcolm Bull is university lecturer in fine art at the University of Oxford. His previous books include Anti-Nietzsche, The Mirror of the Gods, and Seeing Things Hidden.
Reviews for Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting
[A] highly compelling account of an important subject... Bull is to be congratulated on presenting such a thought-provoking study ... welcome addition to the study of early modern art and thought.
Alexander Marr, Apollo [T]antalizingly meaty.
Choice [A]rt historians and critics will find in it a fascinating account of how paintings can initiate and/or facilitate philosophical reflection.
Giorgio ... Read more
Alexander Marr, Apollo [T]antalizingly meaty.
Choice [A]rt historians and critics will find in it a fascinating account of how paintings can initiate and/or facilitate philosophical reflection.
Giorgio ... Read more