Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture (Reaktion Books)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Looking at the Overlooked Analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. This work surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from 17th-century Spanish painting to Cubism. It tackles the controversial field of 17th-century Dutch still life.
Full description- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Published: 01 August 2004
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: General | Art History | Paintings
- ISBN 13: 9780948462061 ISBN 10: 094846206X
- Sales rank: 150,715
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Full description for Looking at the Overlooked
In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women. In "Looking at the Overlooked", Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant to date. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.
