Caterpillage reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / Harry Berger, Jr.

Author/creator Berger, Harry
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 116 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Still-life painting, Dutch--17th century.
Death in art.

Portion of title Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
Contents 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 with cheese and fruit, c. 1615 -- Nature mourant : the fictiveness of Dutch realism -- The embarrassment of niches : Christoffel van den Berghe's Vase of flowers in a stone niche, 1617 -- Nature mourant : Bosschaert's Leaves, Merian's Caterpillars -- "Small-scale violence" -- The darker spirit : Van Huysum's heaps -- Posies : the bouquet as pretext of occasion -- Joris Hoefnagel and the roots of Dutch flower painting -- Conclusion. Allegorical capture and interpretive release.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010041137
ISBN9780823233137 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0823233138 (cloth : alk. paper)

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