Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.

A must-have reference book for today's artists and art students. Every artist needs to learn and master the still life. Written by a well-known artist and expert instructor, The Art of Still Life offers a comprehensive, contemporary approach to the subject that instructs artists on the foundation basics and advanced techniques they need for successful drawing and painting. In addition to Casey's stunning paintings, the work of over fifty past and present masters is included, so that the book will do double duty as a hardworking how-to manual and a visual treasure trove of some of the finest still life art throughout history and being created today.

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women. In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Still life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned Dreamsicle Still life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinder Still life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead parakeet Still life with pork rinds pickled peppers and the Book of Revelation Still life with feeding tube oxygen half-eaten raspberry Zinger Still life with convenience store pecking order shotgun blast to the face —from “American Still Lives” Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandt’s painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer’s own troubled gaze. In Diane Seuss’s new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandt’s painting is presented across the book in pieces—details that hide more than they reveal until they’re assembled into a whole. With invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Instead, Seuss invites in the alienated, the washed-up, the ugly, and the freakish—the overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, O’Keeffe, and Rothko. Rendered with precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that “our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting.”

Laszlo traces the spectacular rise and spread of citrus across the globe, from southeast Asia in 4000 BC to modern Spain and Portugal, whose explorers inroduced the fruit to the Americas. This book explores the numerous roles that citrus has played in agriculture, horticulture, cooking, nutrition, religion, and art.

With its many unusual images and anecdotes, this book will appeal to oyster lovers around the world."--Jacket.

Ontbijtjes: The Art of Dutch Breakfast Still Life This book introduces the unique genre of Breakfast Still Life (Ontbijtjes) paintings, pioneered by Dutch artists in the 17th century. These paintings depict various food and objects on a table from a high perspective, conveying symbols of wealth or religious meaning. Ontbijtjes means 'small breakfast' in Dutch, and refers to the simple meal represented in these still lifes. The book showcases the works and artists of this genre, from the Dutch Golden Age to the present day. You will discover the history, culture, and aesthetics of Breakfast Still Life, and enjoy the visual feast of these masterpieces. This book introduces the unique genre of Breakfast Still Life (Ontbijtjes) paintings, pioneered by Dutch artists in the 17th century. These paintings depict various food and objects on a table from a high perspective, conveying symbols of wealth or religious meaning. Ontbijtjes means 'small breakfast' in Dutch, and refers to the simple meal represented in these still lifes. The book showcases the works and artists of this genre, from the Dutch Golden Age to the present day. You will discover the history, culture, and aesthetics of Breakfast Still Life, and enjoy the visual feast of these masterpieces. [Featured Artist] Alexander Adriaenssen, Clara Peeters, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Gerrit Willemsz. Heda, Jacob van Walscapelle, Jan Jansz Treck Jan Jansz van de Velde III, Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder, Juriaen van Streeck, Martinus Nellius, Osias Beert I Pieter Claesz, Willem Claesz. Heda, Willem Kalf, Roelof Koets, Willem Van Aelst