The Sabine Women and Lévi-Strauss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23410355 |
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| Authors | T J Clark (0009-0000-7524-8690, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 114-130 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230502048_6 |
| OpenAlex | W2483881763 |
| ISBN | 9780230502048 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In a letter Poussin wrote to his patron Paul Fréart de Chantelou in April 1639, instructing him how best to come to terms with the new painting Poussin had sent him — patron and painter were at the start of their long relationship, so basic advice was in order — the following phrase occurs. ‘Lisés l’istoire et le tableau, afin de cognoistre si chasque chose est appropriee au subiect.’ 3 (Read the story and the picture, so as to know if each thing is appropriate to the subject.) I think of this as a John Barrell-type instruction. Therefore it is not surprising that the phrase itself, for all its apparent straightforwardness, is open to interpretation. I for one doubt that Poussin intended Chantelou to look at the painting — it is the Israelites Gathering Manna now in the Louvre — Bible in hand, checking off visual incident against precise textual instigation. This What a certain kind of scholarship wants the letter to mean. I think Poussin assumed that he and Chantelou had the gist of the episode from Exodus, and even some of its more dramatic details, as common ground. When he says ‘lisés l’istoire et le tableau’, I believe we should understand l’istoire to mean something close to Alberti’s historia, and unpack the implied contrast with le tableau in the light of another phrase occurring earlier in the same sentence: ’et que tout ensemble vous considériés le tableau’. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Art · Art history · Chose · Humanities · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Order (exchange) · Painting · Phrase · Sentence · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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