ARTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Museo Del Prado, History Of Painting, History Painting
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Catherine has published questions of artists, visual theory and culture studies. She just published a book: michel foucault in painting. The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences (1966). Words and things, rest of the book"s argument says how everything is nicely (cid:498)classical painting wants to be as convincing as things and doesn"t think it can reach us as things do(cid:499). Natural relationships between humans in the chapter provides the reader/viewer foucault"s visual perception of the (cid:498)spectacle of the painting in our senses(cid:499) foucault painting. Pictures were united before modernity, what a great idea of talk about painting in the first chapter painting and the viewer: foucault subjects the exemplarity of las meninas in representation, the first. Las meninas by diego velazquez (1656), prado museum in madrid: the maids are waiting. All art historians have close readings of material objects and artifacts.