Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting /

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"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 crit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berger, Harry, Jr., 1924-2021 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Still-life painting, Dutch.
Death in art.
Mort dans l'art.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Death in art
Still-life painting, Dutch
Stillleben.
Vanitas.
Motiv.
Döden i konsten.
Stilleben > historia > Nederländerna > 1600-talet.
Niederlande.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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