Caterpillage :reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting

• 作者: Berger, Harry.
• 出版: New York : Fordham University Press 2011.
• 版本: 1st ed.
• 稽核項: xiv, 116 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. (some col.) ;24 cm.
• 標題: Doden i konsten. , Stilleben historia -- Nederlanderna -- 1600-talet. , Stilleben , historia , Death in art. , Still-life painting, Dutch 17th century. , Still-life painting, Dutch
• ISBN: 0823233138 , 9780823233137
• 附註: 100年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
• 摘要: Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life. -- , The book begins with a critique of iconographic discourse and particularly of iconography's treatment of vanitas symbolism. It goes on to argue that this treatment tends to divert attention from still life's darker meanings and from the true character of its traffic with death. Interpretations of still life that focus on the vanity of human experience and the mutability of life minimize the impact made by the representation of such voracious pillagers of plant life as insects, snails, and caterpillars. The message sent by still life's preoccupation with these small-scale predators is not merely vanitas. -- , It is rapacitas. Caterpillage also explores the impact of this message on the meaning of the genre's French name. We use the conventional term nature morte ("dead nature") without giving any thought to how misleading it is. Because so many portraits of still in bloom, are dying, it would be more accurate to name the genre nature mourant. The subjects of still life are plants that are still living, plants that are dying but not yet dead. --Book Jacket.
• 系統號: 005063316
• 資料類型: 圖書
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