This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.
This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.
Dr Claudia Tobin is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at the University of Cambridge. She has held fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Huntington Library, California. She has published commissioned articles, scholarly book chapters, and exhibition catalogues on interdisciplinary topics including Virginia Woolf and still life, modernism and colour, and on Vanessa Bell's abstract painting as part of Tate's 'In Focus' series. She is General Editor, with Julian Bell, of Ways of Drawing, Thames & Hudson (2019).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: 'Nothing is statically at rest': Cézanne and modern still life 1. 'Quivering yet still': Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, and the aesthetics of attention 2. Still Life in Motion 3. 'Past the gap where we cannot see': Still life and the 'numinous' in British painting of the 1920s-30s 4. Wallace Stevens, Charles Mauron and 'inactive contemplation' Conclusion: 'On the very brink of utterance': Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler, and Transfigured Things Index.
Introduction: 'Nothing is statically at rest': Cézanne and modern still life 1. 'Quivering yet still': Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, and the aesthetics of attention 2. Still Life in Motion 3. 'Past the gap where we cannot see': Still life and the 'numinous' in British painting of the 1920s-30s 4. Wallace Stevens, Charles Mauron and 'inactive contemplation' Conclusion: 'On the very brink of utterance': Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler, and Transfigured Things Index.
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