To Destroy Painting General practice When six-year-old Clementine Knight loses

When six-year-old Clementine Knight loses her mother to malaria during the 1870s diamond rush in southern Africa

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‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr

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To Destroy Painting General practice When six-year-old Clementine Knight losesThe work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931 92) is becoming increasingly important to English speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone in Marin's thought about the aims of painting in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A meditation on the work of Poussin and Caravaggio and on their milieux, the book explores a number of