The Late Paintings of Velzquez: Theorizing Painterly Performance (Knox Giles)(Paperback)

The startling conclusion of The Late Paintings of Velzquez is that Diego Velzquez painted two of his most famous works, The Spinners and Las Meninas, as theoretically informed manifestos of painterly brushwork. As a pair, Giles Knox argues, the two paintings form a learned retort to the prevailing critical disdain for the painterly. Knox presents a Velzquez who was much more aware of the art theory of his era than previously acknowledged, leading him to reinterpret Las Meninas and The Spinners as representing together a polemically charged celebration of the handedness of painting. Knox removes Velzquez from his Iberian isolation and seeks to recover his highly self-conscious attempt to carve out a place for himself within the history of European painting as a whole. The Late Paintings of Velzquez presents an artist who, like Annibale Carracci, Poussin, Rembrandt, and
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