Caterpillage
Subtitle: reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
By: Harry Berger, Jr
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823233137
Other titles: Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Hyperreality and truthiness; title: Reading Blake's "The Sick rose"; title: Ethics versus technics in seventeenth-century Dutch still life; title: Vanitas : the McGuffin of still life; title: Still life, trade, and truthiness; title: The pretext of occasion : Floris van Dijck's Laid table with cheese and fruit, c. 1615; title: Nature mourant : the fictiveness of Dutch realism; title: The embarrassment of niches : Christoffel van den Berghe's Vase of flowers in a stone niche, 1617; title: Nature mourant : Bosschaert's Leaves, Merian's Caterpillars; title: "Small-scale violence"; title: The darker spirit : Van Huysum's heaps; title: Posies : the bouquet as pretext of occasion; title: Joris Hoefnagel and the roots of Dutch flower painting; title: Conclusion. Allegorical capture and interpretive release.