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Harry Berger

Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting

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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.The book begins with a critique of iconographic discourse and particularly of iconography's treatment of vanitas symbolism. It goes on to argue that this treatment tends to divert attention from still life's darker meanings and from the true character of its traffic with death. Interpretations of still life that focus on the vanity of human experience and the mutability of life minimize… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8232-3313-7
  • EAN: 9780823233137
  • Produktnummer: 8030885
  • Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 140 S.
  • Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.2 cm 375 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 375

Über den Autor


Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture and A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice (both Fordham).

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