The eloquence of color : rhetoric and painting in the French classical age

Author

Lichtenstein, Jacqueline; McVarish, Emily (Translator)

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Collection

New historicism : studies in cultural poetics ; Num. 18.

Source

Originally published as: La couleur éloquente : rhétorique et peinture à l'âge classique. Paris : Flammarion, 1989. ; 1993 ; xii, 269 p.; ill.; bibliogr.; index

Publisher

University of California Press, Berkeley (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Discusses the importance of color in reconciling ancient differences between rhetoric and painting. Before the 17th c., and inspired by Plato's distrust of the showy Sophists, design was in art theory and rhetorical theory valorized over color. In the 17th c., however, the image gained importance as an agent of thought, and with it color--both in painting and in rhetoric--was revalued. Considers the relationship of color to the feminine in art, and its role in reconciling reason and pleasure, action and passion.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- France
• Painting
• France
• 1600-1700
• Color
• Rhetoric
• Comparison
• Ancient [art]
• Art theory
• Femininity

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- France
• Peinture
• France
• 1600-1700
• Couleur
• Rhétorique
• Comparaison
• Antique (art)
• Théorie de l'art
• Féminité

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00337903

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