American encounters : the simple pleasures of still life ; [in conjunction with the exhibition 'New Frontier IV. Fastes et fragments. Aux origines de la nature morte américaine' at the Musée de Louvre from February 5 to April 28, 2015, and 'American Encounters: The simple pleasures of still life' at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art from May 16 to September 9, 2015, and the High Museum of Art from September 26, 2015, to January 31, 2016]

American encounters the simple pleasures of still life ; [in conjunction with the exhibition 'New Frontier IV. Fastes et fragments. Aux origines de la nature morte américaine' at the Musée de Louvre from February 5 to April 28, 2015, and 'American Encounters: The simple pleasures of still life' at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art from May 16 to September 9, 2015, and the High Museum of Art from September 26, 2015, to January 31, 2016]

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...

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Körperschaft: The High Museum of Art (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Mayer, Stephanie (HerausgeberIn), Brownlee, Peter John (BerichterstatterIn), Greenhouse, Wendy (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Atlanta High Museum of Art 2015
Seattle, WA Univ. of Washington Press
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Geschichte 1800-1900 > Nature morte / États-Unis / Catalogues d'exposition > Still-life painting, American > National characteristics, American, in art > Malerei > Stillleben > USA > Ausstellungskatalog > Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art > High Museum of Art > Musée du Louvre
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