Berger, Harry.
Caterpillage reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / [electronic resource] : Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting Harry Berger, Jr. - [1st ed.]. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2011. - xiv, 116 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Still-life painting, Dutch.
Death in art.
Electronic books.
ND1393.N43 / B46 2011eb
758/.40949209032
Caterpillage reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / [electronic resource] : Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting Harry Berger, Jr. - [1st ed.]. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2011. - xiv, 116 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Still-life painting, Dutch.
Death in art.
Electronic books.
ND1393.N43 / B46 2011eb
758/.40949209032