"Le Trompe-L'ŒIL" 1996 MAURIES, Patrick (SOLD)

MAURIES, Patrick

[319] pp.

Gallimard

1996

11 3/4" x 9 1/4"

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The absolute of representation, a demonstration of virtuosity, a place of illusion and the vertigo of appearances, trompe-l'oeil has been considered as the perfection of painting, concentrating all debates on the very definition of mimetics. However, this genre has not given rise to a "story"; He will have known only particular moments, partial protocols, contracts or pacts governing the relationship with the image, the relationship between the painter and the spectator, the definition of space, the function of illusion. From Antiquity to the present day, it is therefore not the thread of a history that this volume seeks to identify, but to present, escaping the amateurism that has too often characterized books on this subject, various contexts of reading, several ways of defining the space of an illusion, and the roles that are played in it. An unstable division, constantly modified, and which confronts the historian with insistent enigmas: how does the gaze receive the trompe-l'oeil? How has this reception changed over the course of history? Have we ever believed in trompe-l'oeil? Is it a question of letting oneself be captivated by the illusion, or rather of accepting it - of accepting to be wrong, and of conceiving a true aesthetic enjoyment of it?