The body of Raphaelle Peale : still life and selfhood, 1812-1824 / Alexander Nemerov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nemerov, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825--Criticism and interpretation.

Peale, Raphaelle.

Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825.

Human figure in art.

Still-life painting, American.

Still-life painting--United States--19th century.

Still-life painting.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]

Summary:

Between 1812 and 1824, Raphaelle Peale painted still lifes--depicting berries, meats, other fruits, and vegetables--that Nemerov describes as uncanny because they suggest the artist's own body. Nemerov moves persuasively between these small but powerful paintings and the context of Peale's own life and of early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia.

Contents:

Introduction: Windows on the Object 1

Part 1 Before

Chapter 1 Blackberries and the Solitary Imagination 11

Chapter 2 Blackberries and Embodiment 27

Chapter 3 Blackberries and Focused Vision: Refusing the Long View 43

Chapter 4 Three Kinds of Silence 59

Part 2 Beneath

Chapter 5 Meat and Nonidentity 83

Chapter 6 The Anatomized Still Life 101

Chapter 7 Dissector and Dissected: Self and Body 125

Part 3 Birth

Chapter 8 Abjection: Still Life and the Return of the Maternal Body 143

Chapter 9 The Rhapsodic Maternal Body 157

Chapter 10 Smallness 171

Chapter 11 The Deception of Venus Rising from the Sea 189.

Notes:

"Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.

ISBN:

0520224981

OCLC:

43751572