Looking at the overlooked
Subtitle: four essays on still life painting
By: Norman Bryson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Still-life painting
Description: Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189).