Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting

by Harry Berger Jr. and Harry Berger Jr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823233138
• ISBN13: 9780823233137
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"