Looking At the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting Pb

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In this classic Reaktion title, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of still-life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. From Roman wall-painting to Cubism, and from seventeenth-century Dutch still-life to Bryson's conclusion that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still-life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women, Looking at the Overlooked is Norman Bryson at his brilliant best.

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'Few art historians can unpeel images in the way that he does.' - Frances Spalding, The Independent; 'The still-life really comes alive in this book.' - Good Book Guide

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Norman Bryson is Professor of Art History and Theoretical Studies at the Slade School of Art, University of London. He has written extensively on painting and critical theory.