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The Fertile Ground of Painting: 17th-Century Still Lives and Nature Pieces
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The Fertile Ground of Painting: 17th-Century Still Lives and Nature Pieces
Current price: $188.00
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The Fertile Ground of Painting: 17th-Century Still Lives and Nature Pieces
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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.