Louis Marin

Louis Marin (1931-1992) was a philosopher, historian, and art critic. Born in Le Tronche, Marin is credited as being one of the premier critical thinkers of twentieth-century France. He was the author of On Representation, Utopics, To Destroy Painting, and Sublime Poussin. Marin was a principal proponent of the philosophy of post-structuralism, and was also an accomplished scholar of seventeenth-century French literature and art.