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Is there Still Life?: Continuity and change in South African Still Life Painting was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Old Town House, Cape Town, and the Sanlam Art Gallery, Bellville, in 2007 and 2008. Author, Michael Godby, was also the curator of the exhibition. Godby is a Professor of Art History at the University of Cape Town and has lectured and published on a wide range of topics, from Early Renaissance Italian art to contemporary South African photography. In this book, and its exhibition, Godby has chosen to look exclusively at a selection of still life paintings, mainly Dutch seventeenth century works acquired by Sir Max Michaelis that are now part of the Iziko Museums of Cape Town. His aim in this is to explore the variety of different messages and meanings that are evoked within a single genre. The book is endowed with beautiful colour reproductions of the paintings in question, as well as examples of other works, which supplement Godby’s discussions. Godby is thorough, if selective in his scope, looking at the formal elements of still life, its own history and its significance in South Africa history, different kinds of still life scenes, the importance of still life painting today and its symbolic potential in a South African context. Price (ZA) R150 |
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