Berger, Harry. <br/><br/>
Caterpillage  reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting /  [electronic resource] : 
 Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting 
Harry Berger, Jr. 
 - [1st ed.]. 
 - New York :  Fordham University Press,  2011. 
 - xiv, 116 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue -- Hyperreality and truthiness -- Reading Blake's "The Sick rose" -- Ethics versus technics in seventeenth-century Dutch still life -- Vanitas : the McGuffin of still life -- Still life, trade, and truthiness -- The pretext of occasion : Floris van Dijck's Laid table with cheese and fruit, c. 1615 -- Nature mourant : the fictiveness of Dutch realism -- The embarrassment of niches : Christoffel van den Berghe's Vase of flowers in a stone niche, 1617 -- Nature mourant : Bosschaert's Leaves, Merian's Caterpillars -- "Small-scale violence" -- The darker spirit : Van Huysum's heaps -- Posies : the bouquet as pretext of occasion -- Joris Hoefnagel and the roots of Dutch flower painting -- Conclusion. Allegorical capture and interpretive release. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Still-life painting, Dutch.<br/>Death in art.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ND1393.N43  / B46 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>758/.40949209032