9780948462061-094846206X-Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture (Reaktion Books))

Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture (Reaktion Books))

ISBN-13: 9780948462061
ISBN-10: 094846206X
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Norman Bryson
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780948462061
ISBN-10: 094846206X
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Norman Bryson
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback 192 pages

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Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture (Reaktion Books)) (ISBN-13: 9780948462061 and ISBN-10: 094846206X), written by authors Norman Bryson, was published by Reaktion Books in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Criticism (Arts History & Criticism, Still Life, Painting) books. You can easily purchase or rent Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture (Reaktion Books)) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.3.

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In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, 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.

In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.

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