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SUB LIME POUSS IN
MERIDIAN
Crossing Aesthetics
Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery
Editors
Translated by Catherine Porter
Stanford University Press
Stanford California I999
SUBLIME POUSSIN
Louis Marin
Sublime Poussin was originally published in French in 1995 by Editions du Seuil under the title
Sublime Poussin © 1995 Editions du Seuil
Assistance for the translation was provided by the French Ministry of Culture Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Printed in the United States of America CIP
data appear at the end of the book
Contents
List ofIllustrations and Tables Introduction
IX
I
PART 1: "READ THE STORY AND THE PICTURE"
§I §2 §3
§4
Reading a Picture from 1639 according to a Letter by Poussin
5
Description of the Image: Concerning a Landscape by Poussin
29
Description of a Painting and the Sublime in Painting: Concerning a Poussin Landscape and Its Subject
66
Panofsky and Poussin in Arcadia
§ 5 The Classical Sublime: "Tempests" in Some Landscapes by Poussin
104 120
PART II: "GREAT THEORY AND PRACTICE ALLIED"
§6
Fragments of a Walk through Poussin's Ruins
§7
Awakening Metamorphoses: Poussin,
1625-1635
I43 152
Contents
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§8 §9
A Gaze Rewarded, or Moses Saved from the Water
171
Variations on an Absent Portrait: Poussin's Self-Portraits, 1649-1650
183
§w The Sublime in the 167os: Something
Indefinable, a "Je Ne Sais Quoi"?
209
Appendix 1: 'Sublime Poussin' (Louis Marin's summary outline, 1988)
225
Appendix 2: Letter to Chantelou, ..'8 April 1639
228
An,,·ndix 3: Letter to Chantelou, 24 November 1647
230
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