On the Visual Rhetoric of Trompe-l'oeil and the Perspective Box in the 17th-Century Netherlands

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370168
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Dokkyo University
• Principal Investigator: Hideki Kakita 獨協大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (10306483)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 視覚レトリック / 遠近法箱 / 騙し絵 / サミュエル・ファン・ホーホストラーテン / 視覚文化 / アナモルフォーズ / 潜在的なもの / 投影

Outline of Final Research Achievements

From the viewpoint of communication studies, especially a rhetorical perspective, this project investigated the power of visual rhetoric by focusing on trompe-l'oeil and the perspective box as specific representations of visual culture. While this research project broadly examined trompe-l'oeil and the perspective box, it narrowed its investigation on the works of Samuel van Hoogstraten, who was active in the Netherlands and the UK in the 17th century. In addition to analyzing his perspective box and trompe-l'oeil paintings, this study analyzed with his texts on art theory, anamorphosis, and rhetoric. Focusing on the emergence of anamorphosis (and perspective) in the Western paintings, this study critically examined its historical transformation and the cultural power of rhetoric in the visual material.

Free Research Field

レトリック理論