This collection of essays interprets a wide range of still lifes, using diverse current methods, including paleoethnobotanical research (which makes it possible to reconstruct diets), social history, technical examinations, and material culture studies. The essays consider the complex and expressive richness of still life, traditionally considered one of the lesser genres. The introduction provides a historiography of still life with an emphasis on the 20th century. The essays include discussions on the works of Van Gogh, ...
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This collection of essays interprets a wide range of still lifes, using diverse current methods, including paleoethnobotanical research (which makes it possible to reconstruct diets), social history, technical examinations, and material culture studies. The essays consider the complex and expressive richness of still life, traditionally considered one of the lesser genres. The introduction provides a historiography of still life with an emphasis on the 20th century. The essays include discussions on the works of Van Gogh, Peto, Wesselman, and Kalf.
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Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 9780691033549.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine in fine jacket. 5 color plates and 87 in b/w at rear. xii, 140 pages of text. Slim 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1996). First edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by the author on half title.
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New. 0691033544. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED-204 pages. Book Description: The purpose of these essays is to mine the complexity and expressive richness of still life, traditionally considered one of the lesser genres. Though theorists have commented on its appeal since antiquity, the status of still life has risen significantly only recently, as the priorities of art history and criticism have been reordered to validate areas outside the canon of traditional inquiry. Here six distinguished scholars interpret a wide range of still lifes, using diverse current methods, including paleoethnobotanical research (which makes it possible to reconstruct diets), social history, technical examinations, and material culture studies. The introduction provides a historiography of still life with an emphasis on the twentieth century. Reindert Falkenburg's essay is "Matters of Taste: Pieter Aertsen's Market Scenes, Eating Habits, and Pictorial Rhetoric in the Sixteenth Century, " Anne Lowenthal's, "Contemplating Kalf, " Julia Ballerini's "Recasting Ancestry: Statuettes as Imaged by Three Inventors of Photography, " and Doreen Bolger's "The Early Rack Paintings of John F. Peto: `Beneath the Nose of the Whole World. ' " Petra ten-Doesschate Chu writes on Vincent van Gogh's still lifes and the nineteenth-century vignette tradition; and Nan Freeman, on Tom Wesselmann and still-life painting and American culture, circa 1962. In view of the current interest in still life, the publication of this book is ideally timed. Cumulatively, the six essays alert the reader to the myriad meanings carried by still lifes and the diverse ways in which those meanings can be studied. --with a bonus offer--
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VG+/VG Slight fading to dj. Contents very clean and tight. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering, black dj with color illus and white lettering. xii / 140 pp excluding 87 b+w illus. Very nice collection of 87 b+w glossy illus at rear of volume. Also includes an extensive bibliography. American and European artists.
