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Item Number: 105695Title: Augenschmaus : Vom Essen im Stillleben
Author: Brugger, Ingried ; Eipeldauer, Heike (eds)
Price: $74.50
ISBN: 9783791350165
Description: München: Prestel, 2010. 30cm., hardcover, 248pp., ca. 144 color plates. Exhibition held at Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna. Summary: Around ninety exemplary works from different art landscapes and epochs will be on show, tracing in various narrative lines the history and status of food in still life from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The exhibition presents still life as a changing system of signifiers, positioned in direct relationship to the changes in society and its cultural manners. The question is addressed here as to what extent still life is merely imitation of nature, symbol, or, indeed, construction of reality. A concise juxtaposition of modern and contemporary art works helps to place the spotlight for the first time ever on the continuity, difference and range of still life in its creaturely and symbolic relation to life.
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