Inventing falsehood making truth Vico and Neapolitan painting 1st Edition by Malcolm Bull ISBN 978-0691138848 0691138842

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ISBN 10:   0691138842

ISBN 13: 978-0691138848

Author: Malcolm Bull

How the philosophy of Giambattista Vico was influenced by eighteenth-century Neopolitan painting

Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made–through the exercise of fantasy.

Juxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close connections between the arguments of the philosophers and the arguments of the painters, he shows how Vico drew on both in his influential philosophy of history, The New Science. Bull suggests that painting can serve not just as an illustration for philosophical arguments, but also as the model for them–that painting itself has sometimes been a form of epistemological experiment, and that, perhaps surprisingly, the Neapolitan Baroque may have been one of the routes through which modern consciousness was formed.

Table of contents: 

ONE Vico

TWO Icastic Painting

THREE Fantastic Painting

FOUR Theological Painting

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