The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

by Hanneke Grootenboer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226309681
• ISBN13: 9780226309682
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"