Planets on Tables

by Bonnie Costello

Book Overview

Poets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life with its focus on the domestic sphere seemed to some a retreat from the political and economic pressures of the last century. Yet many American artists and writers found in the arrangement of local objects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801446139
• ISBN13: 9780801446139
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher