Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition

by Michael Petry

Leading artists of the twenty-first century are reviving the still life, a genre that once was more associated with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters than with contemporary art. The audacious still lifes celebrated here challenge that historical supremacy and redefine what it means to be a work of nature morte (literally translated from the French: "dead nature"). Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050029223X
• ISBN13: 9780500292235
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 11.2"