Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth

Vico and Neapolitan Painting

Malcolm Bull

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English

Princeton University Pres
17 February 2014

Theory of art; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Series: Essays in the Arts

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.

By: Malcolm Bull
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780691138848
ISBN 10: 0691138842
Series: Essays in the Arts
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 17 February 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Prologue xi ONE Vico 1 TWO Icastic Painting 43 THREE Fantastic Painting 69 FOUR Theological Painting 101 Epilogue 121 Notes 127 Index 141

"Malcolm Bull is university lecturer in fine art at the University of Oxford. His previous books include ""Anti-Nietzsche"", ""The Mirror of the Gods"", and ""Seeing Things Hidden""."

Reviews for Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting

Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth offers intriguing analyses of painting along with acute close readings of Vico's writings with a fruitful interdisciplinary approach. . . . An accomplished, concise, and intelligently focused account. --Maria Fabricius Hansen, CAA Reviews This is a daring and highly imaginative book. --Helen Langdon, Burlington Magazine [A]rt historians and critics will find in it a fascinating account of how paintings can initiate and/or facilitate philosophical reflection. --Giorgio Baruchello, European Legacy [T]antalizingly meaty. --Choice [A] highly compelling account of an important subject. . . . Bull is to be congratulated on presenting such a thought-provoking study . . . welcome addition to the study of early modern art and thought. --Alexander Marr, Apollo