Textures of the pictorial

Louis Marin's interest was by no means limited to the art of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classicism, but also extended to outstanding painters and works of Modernism. As a regular contributor to numerous art theory journals, such as the "Cahiers du Musée d'art moderne" and "Traverses," published by the Centre Georges Pompidou, he focused on new developmental lines in art and traversed the visual spaces of his own century. Marin's distinctive readings not only reveal the specific legibility of each individual work, but also engage in the analysis of fractures, discontinuities, and historical stratifications, ultimately leading to figures, signs, and transformations that allow the viewer to rediscover a forgotten "intimacy with the visible" and its textures. This richly illustrated volume gathers Marin's most important reflections on art from the last 100 years - from Cézanne to Paul Klee, from Picasso to Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning, and including the iconographic puzzles of Jeff Wall.