Caterpillage reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting /

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Main Author: Berger, Harry
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edition:[1st ed.].
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Table of 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.