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‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr

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To Destroy Painting General practice professionalism and the future 445The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931 92) is becoming increasingly important to English speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone in Marin's thought about the aims of painting in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A meditation on the work of Poussin and Caravaggio and on their milieux, the book explores a number of