Looking at the Overlooked Four Essays on Still Life Painting

Name: Looking at the Overlooked Four Essays on Still Life Painting
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ISBN: 9780948462061

ISBN-10: 094846206X

ISBN-13: 9780948462061

Edition: 2004

Authors: Norman Bryson

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In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses 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.In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 8/1/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword


Xenia


Rhopography


Abundance


Still Life and 'Feminine' Space


References


List of Illustrations