"[Marin's] mandarin prose, as foreign to our age of mass culture as Poussin's paintings, seems as self-sufficient as the strangely in accessible art it so beautifully describes."--Common Knowledge
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations; List of tables; Introduction; Part I. Read the Story and the Picture: 1. Reading a picture from 1639 according to a letter by Poussin; 2. Description of the image: concerning a landscape by Poussin; 3. Description of a painting and the sublime in painting: concerning a Poussin landscape and its subject; 4. Panofsky and Poussin in Arcadia; 5. The classical sublime: tempests' in some landscapes by Poussin; Part II. Great Theory and Practice Allied: 6. Fragments of a walk through Poussin's ruins; 7. Awakening metamorphoses: Poussin, 1625-1635; 8. A gaze rewarded, or Moses saved from the water; 9. Variations on an absent portrait: Poussin's self-portraits, 1649-1650; 10. The sublime in the 1670s: something indefinable, a 'je ne sais quoi'; Appendices; Notes; Works Cited.
