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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Looking at the Overlooked: For Essays on Still Life Painting
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Historically and culturally, the societies that produced still-life painting could hardly be more diverse. What is it then, that allows us to place such different types of images within a single category? Norman Bryson writes about this subject with skill and eloquence in Looking at the Overlooked. Review:Remarkable essays. Review:Norman Bryson's new book...elicits levels of meaning in still life painting that reveal how complex this apparently simple art form can be. He dwells on certain pictures with a fastness comparable to that found inthe best still lifes; and in so doing he induces in the reader a similar attention...Few art historians can unpeel images in the way he does. Review:In four dazzling essays, [Bryson] breaks through the profound, enigmatic silences that have made still life resistant to interpretation for centuries, coaxing the most reticent of genres into eloquent speech...Byincluding still life in the current discourse on gender and patriarchal modes of seeing, Bryson brings it up to date, arguing convincingly for its permanent relevance. For if he is correct, then still life will always offer painters arich seam to mine. Review:There can be little doubt that Bryson has succeeded brilliantly in his aim of developing our critical discourse: novel interpretations can be found on every page of this book. Like all the best art critics, Brysonsucceeds in extending the range of our response to the paintings he writes about: after reading his words on Zurbarán or Chardin their still lifes become tinged with his eloquence. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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