The Fertile Ground of Painting: 17th-Century Still Lives and Nature Pieces

By Karin Leonhard

17th-Century Netherlandish Still Life painting actively participated in the intellectual discourse of natural philosophy and the natural sciences, even though art history until recently described it, somewhat simplifying, as realistic-representative painting. We urgently need a rehabilitation of the notion of Mimesis. The author restarts the discussion, by putting more emphasis on the historical notions of Nature and Image. She examines how mimetic structures acquired a biotic reproductive capacity in the 17th century. Still Life painting thematizes the ability of Nature and Art to produce similarities and is therefore predestined for a theorization of mimetic strcutures of Art in general.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912554062
• ISBN13: 9781912554065
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Harvey Miller
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 12.0"