Research Catalog
Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
- Title
- Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / Harry Berger, Jr.
- Author
- Berger, Harry.
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQE 11-146 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 116 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQE 11-146
- ISBN
- 9780823233137 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0823233138 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010041137
- OCLC
- 630467998
- Author
- Berger, Harry.
- Title
- Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / Harry Berger, Jr.
- Imprint
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 11-146