The Matter of Still Life

Between Chardin and Morandi

Carol Armstrong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

148 Seiten

2026
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520416994 (ISBN)

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How does still life “matter”? Through two essays based on Carol Armstrong's 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectures at the University of Kansas, this project brings into focus material thought as it relates to still life. Exploring two major figures of European still life painting—eighteenth-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and twentieth-century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi—Armstrong provides close readings, discussing these artists' paintings in relation to the works of other European painters, philosophers, and critics whose works intersect on the question of how we understand materiality in relation to still life painting and the material objects this genre represents.

Carol Armstrong is Professor of History of Art at Yale University, where she teaches nineteenth-century European art. Her most recent books are Cézanne’s Gravity and Painting Photography Painting.

Contents

Preface

1. Chardin, Diderot, and the Muteness of Made Things: Between Ekphrasis and the Encyclopedia
2. Giorgio Morandi and the Matter of Still Life

Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.6.2026
Reihe/Serie	Franklin D. Murphy Lectures
Zusatzinfo	49 color images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-13	9780520416994 / 9780520416994
Zustand	Neuware