Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art & Culture)

Disappointing LPricevuti I was looking for something that would take me on a musing tour through various paintings. Too technical and analytical for my reading needs. Maybe more insight into the writers intention needs to be part of the adverts.. Looking at the Overlooked, The first critical book I have read on Still Life painting There is not much literature available on the subject of still life painting that goes beyond the obvious surface information. This is the first review of the history of still life painting which reexamines the human implications of different still life ideas throughout hist. found you there said brilliant. If you're wavering on your decision to purchase this work, just go for it. I took a seminar from Professor Bryson one semester, and let me tell you, this man simply exists on a whole different intellectual level. He constantly confronts and re-perceives art and artistic theo

Norman Bryson is professor of art history and theoretical studies at the Slade School of Art, University of London.

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. 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.In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant to date. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.. In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring

(Frances Spalding The Independent)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 speechBy including 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. (Paul Taylor Art History) . He dwells on certain pictures with a fastness comparable to that found in the best still lifes; and in so doing he induces in the reader a similar attentionFew art historians can unpeel images in the way he doe