书 名：Poussin and the Dance / 普桑与舞蹈

作 者：Emily A. Beeny

出 版：National Gallery Company，2021

装 帧：平装，144页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：24*28 cm

普桑笔下的酒神巴克斯狂欢场景、踉跄的酒神女祭司和跳跃的仙女们，常被形容为“如舞蹈般”和“经过精心编排”。这位艺术家的舞蹈题材作品帮助他发展出一种新的绘画方法，这种方法后来成为了法国古典传统的典范。普桑摒弃了早期职业生涯中那种感性、绘画性的风格，开创出一种清晰、浮雕般的技法，这成为了他成熟作品的标志，并为之后三个世纪的法国艺术树立了先例，从勒布伦和大卫到塞尚和毕加索，无不受到影响。他将从舞蹈中学到的经验融入到作品的每一个角落。

本书汇集了普桑的一系列重要绘画和素描作品，首次探讨了他作品中的舞蹈和舞者主题。重点聚焦于1620年代至1630年代在罗马创作的舞蹈题材作品，论文将普桑对舞蹈的兴趣、他对古董的研究，以及他新古典风格的形成联系起来。本书图文并茂，文笔引人入胜，通过舞蹈这一棱镜，以全新、鲜活的视角展现了普桑的艺术成就。

Poussin’s scenes of bacchanalian revelry, tripping maenads and skipping nymphs are often described as ‘dancelike’ and ‘choreographed’. The artist’s dancing pictures helped him develop a new approach to painting that would become the model for the French classical tradition. Shedding the sensuous, painterly manner of his early career, Poussin carved out the crisp, relief-like approach that characterized his mature work and set the precedent for three centuries of French art, from Le Brun and David to Cézanne and Picasso. He carried lessons learned from dance into every corner of his production.

This book brings together a key group of paintings and drawings by Poussin, exploring the theme of dance and dancers in his production for the first time. Focusing on the dancing pictures created in Rome in the 1620s and 1630s, essays connect Poussin’s interest in dance, his study of antiquities, and his formulation of a new classical style. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, this publication uses the prism of dance to cast Poussin in a new, fresh light.