reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting Berger, Harry. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. nyu New York Fordham University Press 2011 [1st ed.]. monographic eng

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xiv, 116 p. : ill. 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. Harry Berger, Jr. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. e-ne--- Still-life painting, Dutch Death in art ND1393.N43 B46 2011eb 758/.40949209032 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10460269 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10460269 CaPaEBR 100924 ebr10460269