The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture

by William H. Gerdts, Susan Landauer, Patricia Trenton, et al.

Book Overview

As E. H. Gombrich once observed, the still life is compelled to challenge and at the same time perpetuate tradition. Without the elements of recognition and comparison, and the discovery of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520239385
• ISBN13: 9780520239388
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

GREAT BOOK On STILL LIFE

Great book, delivered on time and in good condition. The contents of the book are well organized and beautifully illustrated... Nuff said

Still Life Extraordinaire

I love this book; anyone who paints still life or likes still life should have this book in his/her library. The book presents an amazing variety of approaches to still life represented in excellent color plates. Diebenkorn painted a knife in a glass of water -- who knew? Most of the greats have painted still life at one time or another (or included it as background); this book shows why, despite contemporary art's distaste for still life, it endures.