The object as subject : studies in the interpretation of still life /

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Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.
Description:xii, 140 p., [52] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7700356
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Other authors / contributors:Lowenthal, Anne W.
ISBN:0691033544 (alk. paper)
9780691033549 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-131) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Matters of Taste: Pieter Aertsen's Market Scenes, Eating Habits, and Pictorial Rhetoric in the Sixteenth Century
  • Contemplating Kalf
  • Recasting Ancestry: Statuettes as Imaged by Three Inventors of Photography
  • The Early Rack Paintings of John F. Peto: "Beneath the Nose of the Whole World"
  • Emblems for a Modern Age: Vincent van Gogh's Still Lifes and the Nineteenth-Century Vignette Tradition
  • Tom Wesselmann: Still-Life Painting and American Culture, circa 1962
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Illustrations