... , or between their world and that of the spectator. Once the film of scholarly mystification is removed, clarity, precision, solidity, lustre and verisimilitude reveal the main characteristic of European oil painting: the representation of material wealth. Following the ideas of Levi-Strauss, Berger explains the development of this particular art technique and art form and its phenomenal rise in the 15th ... of mercantile capitalists, and later the landed gentry, to confirm their sense of ownership and the importance of riches. Set within a conceptual framework that charts the trajectory...

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