POUSSIN Anthony Blunt 0 9529986 0 2 £24.95 702pp 12 colour plates 536 b/w plates, incl all of Poussin's paintings and a major proportion of the drawings full indexes 246 x 170 mm portrait A CLASSIC REISSUED From the moment it appeared, this book took its place as the most thoughtful, most searching and most ambitious study of Poussin ever written. That position remains essentially unchanged almost thirty years later. Professor Michael Kitson, in the Foreword The greatest Poussin scholar of this century - a great mind Pierre Rosenberg, Director, Louvre Nobody can work on Poussin without acknowledging at every level the debt to the fundamental work of Anthony Blunt Neil McGregor, Director, National Gallery The longest and most erudite of all the books ever published on Poussin is that of Anthony Blunt, which in a manner never before attempted, gave the literary, philosophical and cultural background to Poussin's art. It can be read without any knowledge of Poussin's pictures and exists in its own right as a monumental example of cultural history. Never before in the history of art had such a formidable apparatus of scholarship been brought to bear on one painter Christopher Wright, in Poussin: Paintings Out of print for many years, with any available second-hand copies changing hands for many hundreds of pounds, Anthony Blunt's Poussin has long been one of the great unobtainables on any student's list. In it, Blunt recreates the entire intellectual world of an artist called 'the philosopher-painter', whose paintings still rank as some of the richest and most emotionally charged in Western art. Far more than an art historical monograph, Blunt's book is a monument to the intense relationship of two acute and passionate minds across the centuries. The academic and personal context of this remarkable work is explored by Michael Kitson and Brian Sewell in essays specially written for this edition. As well as the text and 271 text illustrations, the Pallas edition also includes all the 265 plates of the original book, illustrating virtually every single painting by Poussin, many with close-up details. No such complete work on Poussin exists at any price.