POUSSIN,NICOLAS. Bätschmann,Oskar. — Nicolas Poussin. Dialectics of painting.

[London], Reaktion Books, [1990]. VIII,163 pp. Num. ills (some col.). Orig. hardcover (brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine), d./j. Large 8vo. In this study of Nicolas Poussin, one of the greatest artists of seventeenth-century Europe, Oskar Batschmann presents a series of interconnected studies offering new avenues for interpreting the work and ideas of this brilliant, complex figure. This magnificently illustrated book issues a polemical challenge within a field of art-historical research that has often become bogged down in intractable disputes and arcane details. - Part I originally appeared in German in 1982 under the title "Dialektik der Malerei von Nicolas Poussin."