An edition of Caterpillage (2011)

Caterpillage

reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting

Caterpillage
Harry Berger, Harry Berger
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An edition of Caterpillage (2011)

Caterpillage

reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
758/.40949209032
Library of Congress
ND1393.N43 B46 2011, ND1393.N43B46 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24479716M
ISBN 13
9780823233137
LCCN
2010041137
OCLC/WorldCat
630467998

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OL15521667W

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