LEADER 03072nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910457109903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-7506-X 010 $a0-8232-3315-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000032048 035 $a(EBL)3239562 035 $a(OCoLC)923763539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483223 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11302969 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483223 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529379 035 $a(PQKB)11651939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239562 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10460269 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000032048 100 $a20100924d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCaterpillage$b[electronic resource] $ereflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting /$fHarry Berger, Jr 205 $a[1st ed.]. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (132 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-3313-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue -- 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. 330 $aCaterpillage 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 hu 517 3 $aReflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting 606 $aStill-life painting, Dutch 606 $aDeath in art 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aStill-life painting, Dutch. 615 0$aDeath in art. 676 $a758/.40949209032 700 $aBerger$b Harry$0185160 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457109903321 996 $aCaterpillage$92085796 997 $aUNINA