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Caterpillage : Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting.

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 with a critique o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berger, Harry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Hyperreality and Truthiness
  • Reading Blakeâ€?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 Dijckâ€?s Laid Table with Cheese and Fruit, c. 1615
  • Nature Mourant: The Fictiveness of Dutch Realism
  • The Embarrassment of Niches: Christoffel van den Bergheâ€?s Vase of Flowers in a Stone Niche, 1617
  • Nature Mourant: Bosschaertâ€?s Leaves, Merianâ€?s CaterpillarsSmall-scale Violence
  • The Darker Spirit: Van Huysumâ€?s Heaps
  • Posies: The Bouquet as Pretext of Occasion
  • Joris Hoefnagel and the Roots of Dutch Flower Painting
  • Conclusion: Allegorical Capture and Interpretive Release
  • Epigraph Sources
  • Notes
  • Index of Names