American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life - Softcover

Heydt, Stephanie Mayer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692291385 ISBN 13: 9780692291382

Publisher: Lucia Marquand Books, 2015

Synopsis

Still life celebrates the commonplace. But in these simple objects we invest meaning―meaning that can be culturally specific but also universal. From the seventeenth century onward in Europe, a shared visual language developed around the practice of still life painting. In early nineteenth century America, artists adapted established formats to suit new circumstances. Drawing examples from three American and one French museum, this catalogue traces the development of American still life painting and its European precedents. American Enounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life is the final installment of the series, a collaborative project between Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Musée du Louvre, the High Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating four key genres in nineteenth century American art: landscape, genre, portraiture, and still life.

About this title

From the Author:

Stephanie Mayer Heydt is Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art at the High Museum of Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lucia Marquand Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0692291385
• ISBN 13: 9780692291382
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68