Looking at the Overlooked
Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture)
Edición de la obra Looking at the Overlooked
| Autor | Norman Bryson |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | September 1, 1991 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 192 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780674539068 |
| ISBN-10 | 0674539060 |
| OCLC | 20594078 |
| Número de Cutter | B916l |
Norman Bryson analyzes 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.