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Still life : poems from the cheshire prize for literature 2010 /

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Still life : poems from the cheshire prize for literature 2010 /

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

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. …”
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Caterpillage reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / by Berger, Harry

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. …”
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Still life with oysters and lemon by Doty, Mark

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Still life with oysters and lemon by Doty, Mark

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Arcimboldo visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting / by Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Arcimboldo's Lombard origins -- Arcimboldo from 1562: the creation of composite heads -- Learning, poetry, and art -- Serious jokes -- Natural philosophy, natural history, and nature painting -- Nature studies -- Arcimboldo and the origins of still life -- Arcimboldo's paradoxical paintings and the origins of still life -- Conclusion: Arcimboldo in the history of art -- Appendix 1. …”
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Arcimboldo visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting / by Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Arcimboldo's Lombard origins -- Arcimboldo from 1562: the creation of composite heads -- Learning, poetry, and art -- Serious jokes -- Natural philosophy, natural history, and nature painting -- Nature studies -- Arcimboldo and the origins of still life -- Arcimboldo's paradoxical paintings and the origins of still life -- Conclusion: Arcimboldo in the history of art -- Appendix 1. …”
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Capture : American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition / by Traisnel, Antoine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A New Animal Condition -- Last Vestiges of the Hunt. Still Lifes (Audubon) -- Land Speculations (Cooper) -- New Genres of Capture. …”
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Capture : American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition / by Traisnel, Antoine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A New Animal Condition -- Last Vestiges of the Hunt. Still Lifes (Audubon) -- Land Speculations (Cooper) -- New Genres of Capture. …”
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Modern art, 19th & 20th centuries / by Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-

Table of Contents: “…Cézanne: The apples of Cézanne: an essay on the meaning of still-life. Cézanne. Cézanne as a watercolorist.--Courbet and popular imagery.…”

Modern art, 19th & 20th centuries / by Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-

Table of Contents: “…Cézanne: The apples of Cézanne: an essay on the meaning of still-life. Cézanne. Cézanne as a watercolorist.--Courbet and popular imagery.…”

Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body / by Heinrich, Ari Larissa

Table of Contents: “…Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus -- Chinese whispers: Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics -- Souvenirs of the organ trade: the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art -- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye -- Still life: recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond -- All rights preserved: intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits.…”
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Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body / by Heinrich, Ari Larissa

Table of Contents: “…Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus -- Chinese whispers: Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics -- Souvenirs of the organ trade: the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art -- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye -- Still life: recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond -- All rights preserved: intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits.…”
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Address by Willis, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…. -- Valet of the shadow of death -- Unseasonable pastoral -- Flow chart -- Poisonous plants of America -- The witch -- Still life with tornado -- Wooded tributary -- The oldest garden in the world -- Vernacular architecture -- Ruskin -- Another life in green -- Yesness Park -- Sonnet -- You've lost your card -- This is not a poem about Katherine Harris -- Year-end review -- January -- Blasted hymn -- May day -- Exquisite replica -- Sonnet -- Extended forecast -- A species is an idea (2) -- Triptik -- Classified -- Incidental knowledge -- Blacklist -- In strength and sweetness.…”
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Address by Willis, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…. -- Valet of the shadow of death -- Unseasonable pastoral -- Flow chart -- Poisonous plants of America -- The witch -- Still life with tornado -- Wooded tributary -- The oldest garden in the world -- Vernacular architecture -- Ruskin -- Another life in green -- Yesness Park -- Sonnet -- You've lost your card -- This is not a poem about Katherine Harris -- Year-end review -- January -- Blasted hymn -- May day -- Exquisite replica -- Sonnet -- Extended forecast -- A species is an idea (2) -- Triptik -- Classified -- Incidental knowledge -- Blacklist -- In strength and sweetness.…”
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Go figure energies, forms, and institutions in the early modern world /

Table of Contents: “…Spenser's giant and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- The sacramental neuter and the missing body in Robert Southwell's poetics / Lowell Gallagher -- Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet / Heather Dubrow -- The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa / Amelia Zurcher -- Caterpillage : Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting / Harry Berger, Jr. -- Figuring belief : George Herbert's devotional creatures / David Glimp -- Entertaining Friends : Falstaff's Parasitology / Donald Hedrick -- Skin Merchants : Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II / Julian Yates.…”
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Go figure energies, forms, and institutions in the early modern world /

Table of Contents: “…Spenser's giant and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- The sacramental neuter and the missing body in Robert Southwell's poetics / Lowell Gallagher -- Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet / Heather Dubrow -- The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa / Amelia Zurcher -- Caterpillage : Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting / Harry Berger, Jr. -- Figuring belief : George Herbert's devotional creatures / David Glimp -- Entertaining Friends : Falstaff's Parasitology / Donald Hedrick -- Skin Merchants : Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II / Julian Yates.…”
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World cinema and the visual arts

Table of Contents: “…Choy -- The postnational and the aesthetics of the spectral: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flight of the red balloon / Je Cheol Park -- The art object as text in the practice of comparative visuality / Jane Chin Davidson -- Exploring in-humanity: Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons and still-life painting / Nandini Ramesh Sankar -- Re-defining art: Manuel Rivas' Mujer en el baño / Ana-María Medina -- Re-envisioning the haunting past: Kara Walker's art and the re-appropriation of the visual codes of the antebellum South / Minna Niemi.…”
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World cinema and the visual arts

Table of Contents: “…Choy -- The postnational and the aesthetics of the spectral: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flight of the red balloon / Je Cheol Park -- The art object as text in the practice of comparative visuality / Jane Chin Davidson -- Exploring in-humanity: Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons and still-life painting / Nandini Ramesh Sankar -- Re-defining art: Manuel Rivas' Mujer en el baño / Ana-María Medina -- Re-envisioning the haunting past: Kara Walker's art and the re-appropriation of the visual codes of the antebellum South / Minna Niemi.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view