Joseph Monteyne
From Still Life to the Screen
- ISBN 13:
- 9780300196351
- author:
- Joseph Monteyne
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Yale University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 292
- Dimensions:
- 26.16 x 19.81 x 2.54 centimetres
- Genre:
- History, Europe, Great Britain,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
From Still Life to the Screen explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In this lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers how images were displayed in still lifes and markets, and how they reflected changing notions of identity.
The desire for goods emerged alongside modern ideas about the self, with things seen to mirror and symbolize the individual. Prints, particularly graphic satires by artists such as Matthew and Mary Darly, James Gillray, William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, and Paul Sandby, played a key role in this shift.
These images often blurred the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, self and thing, revealing recurring motifs of image display. The author links these motifs to new conceptions of the self, specifically through the penetration of spectacle into everyday experience.
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