In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the…
Historically and culturally, the societies that produced still life painting could hardly be more diverse. What is it, then, that allows us to place such different types of image in a single category? Norman Bryson argues that the family resemblances between the different types …
In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the…
Historically and culturally, the societies that produced still life painting could hardly be more diverse. What is it, then, that allows us to place such different types of image in a single category? Norman Bryson argues that the family resemblances between the different types …
"Poets Have Long Been Drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life with its focus on the domestic…
"The still-life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age depict tables richly laid with products from the far corners of the earth, products attesting to the vast scope of the Dutch trade network. These pictures reveal much more about Dutch society and capitalist culture of the sevente…
From the publisher. Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their status during the early Renaissance. This quickened interest was primarily manifested in visual images -- in il…
Prologue -- Hyperreality and truthiness -- Reading Blake's "The Sick rose" -- Ethics versus technics in seventeenth-century Dutch still life -- Vanitas : the McGuffin of still life -- Still life, trade, and truthiness -- The pretext of occasion : Floris van Dijck's Laid table wi…
"Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life. The book begins …
Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life. The book begins …
"An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke"--.
