|
Item Number: 109787
Title: In the Presence of Things : Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting. 1: 17th-18th Centuries
Author: Cherry, Peter ; John Loughman ; Lesley Stevenson
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789728848705
Description: Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 2010. 28cm., pbk., 271pp. with numerous color plates. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: Still life has had a role in Western Painting for a long time, having initially had a secondary one as an element of characterisation of an atmosphere or a hermetic feature, gaining the autonomous status of a genre as from the seventeenth century, initially a reason why the essential narrative core of the image was deluding and almost concealed. First it satisfied the mimetic descriptions of objects – artificial or natural – and, being able to have a mere decorative function established itself in modern times as a genre capable of communicating maximum symbolic and expressive values. Includes: P. Cherry "In the presence of things: Two Centuries of still-life painting," J. Loughman "Still-life painting in the Netherlands of the 17th century," P. Cherry "The golden age of still-life painting in Spain and Italy," L. Stevenson "The still life in France: tradition and equivocation.". (Volume II, devoted to still-life painting in the 19th and 20th centuries, will be published on the occasion of the next show taking place in 2011)
We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available.
Please contact us if you need additional assistance.
P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US
Phone: 845-331-8519
Fax: 845-331-0852
Email: michael@artbooks.com