True Vine On Visual Representation and the Western Tradition

This highly unconventional study provides a survey of some of the crucial themes of Western art. It focuses on three main issues; the use of grapes as a pictorial motif, the recurrent myth of self-reflection typified by the story of Narcissus, and the notion of historical sequence as it is found in the medieval legend of the True Cross The purpose of the book, which contains discussions of Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio, Poussin, and Cezanne, among others, is to bring out the reciprocal connections between the art of the past and the art of our own period, and to demonstrate the need for a critical approach that will identify the current features of the Western tradition.Bann, Stephen is the author of 'True Vine On Visual Representation and the Western Tradition', published 1989 under ISBN 9780521341448 and ISBN 0521341442.