Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / Harry Berger, Jr.

Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / Harry Berger, Jr.

1st ed.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

xiv, 116 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

ND1393.N43 B46 2011