An edition of Looking at the Overlooked (1990)
Looking at the Overlooked
Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture)
By Norman Bryson
Publish Date
September 1, 1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
eng
Pages
192
Description:
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.