Objects on a Table

Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature

By Guy Davenport

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July 30, 1999 | Paperback | 7.5 x 7.5, 136 pages | ISBN 9781582430355

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This collection of four essays on the art of the still life begins with a look back to pictures of meals painted on the walls of Egyptian tombs – as the author points out, the soul could eat. Davenport’s meditations on the still life dip into the full history of this art form, touching on neolithic cave paintings, the Dutch masters, Cezanne, Van Gogh, even photography and the collage.

About Guy Davenport

GUY DAVENPORT (1927-2005) was born in South Carolina and lived for more than forty years in Lexington, Kentucky, where he died in 2005. The author of more than twenty books, including The Geography of the Imagination, Eclogues, and The Death of Picasso, he was also a distinguished professor at the University of Kentucky and a MacArthur Fellow in 1990.