Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe

In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally developed for persuasive speech, has always used the visual as an important means of persuasion, and hence offers a number of strategies and concepts for visual persuasion as well. The book is divided into three major sections - theory, invention, and design. Van Eck analyzes how rhetoric informed artistic practice, theory, and perception in early modern Europe.

Author: Caroline Van Van Eck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/11/2014
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781107687851

About the Author
Van Van Eck, Caroline: - Caroline van Eck is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She has received fellowships from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the British Council, and in 2004 was the first art historian to be awarded a prestigious VICI grant from the Dutch Foundation of Scientific Research (NWO). She is the author of Dealing with the Visual: Aesthetics: Art History and Visual Culture and The Concept of Style in Philosophy and the Arts, among other books and articles.