Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / Harry Berger, Jr.
Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life. --
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| Other title: | Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.