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1Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin
Anthony Blunt
A standard study of Poussin's life and paintings, useful for reading any short book on the painter in context.
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2Studies in Iconology
Studies in Iconology
Erwin Panofsky
Explains how to read the subjects and symbols of Renaissance and early modern painting, the method behind most writing on biblical scenes.
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3The Art of Describing
The Art of Describing
Svetlana Alpers
Argues that Dutch and Flemish painting worked through description rather than narrative, a useful counterpoint for thinking about how Poussin tells his stories.
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4Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
A short, illustrated book on how images are looked at and what they carry, written for general readers.
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5Absorption and Theatricality
Absorption and Theatricality
Michael Fried
Examines how French painting of the eighteenth century staged the viewer's relation to the image, a debate that touches earlier French painters too.
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6The Painting of Modern Life
The Painting of Modern Life
T.J. Clark
A close study of how individual paintings register their social and historical moment, a method that suits a book focused on one painter.
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7Confronting Images
Confronting Images
Georges Didi-Huberman
Essays on how art historians look at paintings and what they risk when they interpret, written with close attention to individual works.
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8The Story of Art
The Story of Art
E. H. Gombrich
A broad, readable history of Western art that places individual painters within their period, a good general frame for a study of Poussin.
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