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001 2013015837
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005 20141003081633.0
008 130709s2013 njua b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aND1140$b.B78 2013
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100 1 $aBull, Malcolm.
245 10 $aInventing falsehood, making truth :$bVico and Neapolitan painting /$cMalcolm Bull.
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2013]
300 $axiii,144 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aEssays in the arts
520 $a"Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made--through the exercise of fantasy.Juxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close connections between the arguments of the philosophers and the arguments of the painters, he shows how Vico drew on both in his influential philosophy of history, The New Science. Bull suggests that painting can serve not just as an illustration for philosophical arguments, but also as the model for them--that painting itself has sometimes been a form of epistemological experiment, and that, perhaps surprisingly, the Neapolitan Baroque may have been one of the routes through which modern consciousness was formed"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aPainting$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aArt and philosophy$zItaly$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPainting, Italian$zItaly$zNaples$y18th century.
650 0 $aPainting, Baroque$zItaly$zNaples.
600 10 $aVico, Giambattista,$d1668-1744.
650 0 $aTruth.
650 7 $aART / European.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / History / Baroque & Rococo.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Italy.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / General.$2bisacsh