Track My Order
Help Centre
1300 187 187
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
The Rhetoric of Perspective : Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting - Hanneke Grootenboer

The Rhetoric of Perspective

Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

By: Hanneke Grootenboer

Hardcover | 2 May 2005 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Hardcover

$222.50

or 4 interest-free payments of $55.63 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 10 to 15 business days

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 is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image.

Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes a new theory of perspective based on the phenomenological aspects of non-narrative still-life, trompe l'oeil, and anamorphic imagery. Drawing on playful and mesmerizing baroque images, Grootenboer characterizes what she calls their sophisticated deceit, asserting that painting is more about visual representation than about its supposed objects.

Offering an original theory of perspective's impact on pictorial representation, the act of looking, and the understanding of truth in painting, Grootenboer shows how these paintings both question the status of representation and explore the limits and credibility of perception.

"An elegant and honourable synthesis."--Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement

Industry Reviews
"A remarkable book. The Rhetoric of Perspective is one of the soundest pieces of post-structuralist writing that the discipline has produced. The prose is lucid and crisp and, at times, poetic. Grootenboer's reading of these paintings generates a striking argument about perspective with implications far beyond the seventeenth-century Dutch field, indeed beyond disciplines of art history."--Christopher S. Wood, Yale University
"A fresh turn with the thoughts and methods of Heidegger, Pascal, Barthes, Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty . . . . Tightly focused and yet broadly significant, The Rhetoric of Perspective represents a bold act of 'historiographic experimentation'. . . . Admirably, the book enacts some of the very traits of its subject -- moderation, modesty, and restraint--about specific images that in turn generate a persuasive clarity about greater ideas. Grootenboer advances, in a sterling exposition, the worthy project of understanding the genre of still life. . . . A book respectable in every detail."--John Hagood "Art Libraries Society of North America" (6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM)

You Can Find This Book In

Non-FictionArts & EntertainmentHistory of Art & Design StylesArt from 1800 to 1900Art FormsPainting & PaintingsArt from 1600 to 1800Art Treatments & SubjectsAnimals, Nature & Still Life in ArtGeneral Issues in ArtTheory of Art

More in General Issues in Art

The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron

The Artist's Way

A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Paperback

RRP $39.99

$37.95

Tom Ford - Tom Ford

Tom Ford

Hardcover

RRP $250.00

$147.50

41%
OFF
Frank Lloyd Wright - Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Frank Lloyd Wright

Hardcover

RRP $155.00

$96.25

38%
OFF
The Artist's Way : Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron

The Artist's Way

Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Hardcover

RRP $55.00

$43.90

20%
OFF
Still Life : Contemporary Australian Painters - Amber Creswell Bell

Still Life

Contemporary Australian Painters

Hardcover

RRP $59.99

$41.25

31%
OFF
Churchill : The Playwright - Geraldine Cousin

Churchill

The Playwright

Hardcover

RRP $179.00

$131.75

26%
OFF
The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy - Kristin Phillips-Court

The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy

Paperback

RRP $83.99

$66.75

21%
OFF
The Arctic : A Darker Shade of White - Sebastian Copeland

The Arctic

A Darker Shade of White

Hardcover

$116.90

Shakespeare : The Man Who Pays The Rent - Dame Judi Dench

Shakespeare

The Man Who Pays The Rent

Paperback

RRP $36.99

$33.25

10%
OFF
Ways of Seeing : Penguin Modern Classics - John Berger

Ways of Seeing

Penguin Modern Classics

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$18.95

24%
OFF
Acts of Creation : On Art and Motherhood - Hettie Judah

Acts of Creation

On Art and Motherhood

Hardcover

RRP $59.99

$41.25

31%
OFF
Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck : Anatomy for Artists - Michel Lauricella

Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck

Anatomy for Artists

Paperback

RRP $29.99

$28.50

Interaction of Color : 50th Anniversary Edition - Josef Albers

Interaction of Color

50th Anniversary Edition

Paperback

RRP $28.95

$21.50

26%
OFF
Color Charts : A History - Anne Varichon

Color Charts

A History

Hardcover

RRP $89.99

$61.90

31%
OFF

This product is categorised by

Popular Searches