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Caterpillage

by Berger, Harry.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Edition statement:[1st ed.]. Published by : Fordham University Press, (New York :) Physical details: xiv, 116 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Still-life painting, Dutch. | Death in art. | Electronic books.
Year: 2011
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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.

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