Louis Marin, translated by Catherine Porter – Stanford University Press, 1999
“Art history and art theory are inseparable. A history of art can be achieved only through the simultaneous construction of a theory of art.” These words of the eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin suggest why he considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an enduring source of inspiration.
Since Marin did not live to write his proposed book on Poussin, the ten major essays in this volume will remain his definitive statement on the painter who inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary.