The Fertile Ground of Painting

Seventeenth-Century Still Lifes and Nature Pieces

von Karin Leonhard

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Harvey Miller
• ISBN: 9781912554065
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2021
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Brepols Publishers