Just to pass along a writer I found interesting and read excerpts on
google books :
Looking at the Overlooked - Four Essays on Still Life Painting by Norman
Bryson
Interesting because he makes a connection between Bakhtin's "Rabelais
and His World" and still life painting as the lower bodily functions.
I make a connection with still life photography and B's Dialogic
imagination and like Bryson, still life and lyric poetry. I seem to have
stumbled over something of interest here where still life connects to
novels and lyric verse? Unlike Bryson I say still life painting begins
with 17th century Dutch baroque rather then Roman Xenia.
Like myself Bryson sees still lifes as a minor art in painting.
I got this from the Large Format Photography forum, which does have
intelligent life beyond hobbyists posting photos and what lens and
camera they use, in accord with masculine subjectivity. (Someone had
even read Beckett.) Also, here the privileged painting model of art, esp
figure and landscape, is more widely understood, which leads me to think
this discussion is more limited to painters and visual artists then I
had understood. Still life photography is clearly a minor art form.
best wishes, Chris Jones.
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