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Caterpillage - Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting (Hardcover, New)
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Caterpillage - Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting (Hardcover, New)
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Caterpillage 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 human experience and the mutability of life minimize the
impact made by the representation of such voracious pillagers of
plant life as insects, snails, and caterpillars. The message sent
by still life's preoccupation with these small-scale predators is
not merely vanitas. It is rapacitas. Caterpillage also explores the
impact of this message on the meaning of the genre's French name.
We use the conventional term nature morte ("dead nature") without
giving any thought to how misleading it is. Because so many
portrayals of still life involve cut flowers, which, although still
in bloom, are dying, it would be more accurate to name the genre
nature mourant. The subjects of still life are plants that are
still living, plants that are dying but not yet dead.
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