The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture
- ISBN-10
- 0520239385
- ISBN-13
- 9780520239388
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 225
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-11-10
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- William H. Gerdts, Susan Landauer, Patricia Trenton
Description
"Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.
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