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Author:

Mitchell, Mark DeSaussure, 1975- author.

Title:

The art of American still life : Audubon to Warhol / Mark D. Mitchell ; with essays by Bill Brown, Mark D. Mitchell, Katie A. Pfohl, and Carol Troyen.

Publisher:

Philadelphia Museum of Art ;

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 31 cm

Subject:

Still-life painting, American--Exhibitions.
Still-life painting, American--19th century--Exhibitions.
Still-life painting, American--20th century--Exhibitions.
Still-life painting, American.
1800 - 1999

Other Authors:

Brown, Bill, 1958- author.
Pfohl, Katie A., author.
Troyen, Carol, author.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, host institution.

Notes:

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Audubon to Warhol: the art of American still life, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 27, 2015-January 10, 2016"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265) and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Timothy Rub -- Philadelphia still life and American art / Mark D. Mitchell -- Fruit, flowers, and Lucky Strikes: The still life in American culture / Carol Troyen -- Object cultures and the life of things / Bill Brown -- Still life's shifting ground: American interpretations / Katie A. Pfohl -- Plates / Mark D. Mitchell -- What is a still life? -- Describing, 1795-1845 -- Indulging, 1845-1890 -- Discerning, 1875-1905 -- Animating, 1905-1950 -- Looking back through Pop.

ISBN:

0300204116 (Yale)
9780300204117 (Yale)
0876332688 (PMA)
9780876332689 (PMA)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)927983541

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)