The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

by Hanneke Grootenboer

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226309681

ISBN13:9780226309682

Release Date:May 2005

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:246 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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