Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Plates
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Introduction: ‘Nothing is really statically at rest’: Cézanne and Modern Still Life
- 1 ‘Quivering yet still’: Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Aesthetics of Attention
- 2 Still Life in Motion
- 3 ‘Past the gap where we cannot see’: Still Life and the ‘Numinous’ in British Painting of the 1920s–1930s
- 4 ‘Inactive contemplation’: Wallace Stevens and Charles Mauron
- Conclusion: ‘On the very brink of utterance’: Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler and Transfigured Things
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
List of Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Plates
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Introduction: ‘Nothing is really statically at rest’: Cézanne and Modern Still Life
- 1 ‘Quivering yet still’: Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Aesthetics of Attention
- 2 Still Life in Motion
- 3 ‘Past the gap where we cannot see’: Still Life and the ‘Numinous’ in British Painting of the 1920s–1930s
- 4 ‘Inactive contemplation’: Wallace Stevens and Charles Mauron
- Conclusion: ‘On the very brink of utterance’: Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler and Transfigured Things
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
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- Modernism and Still LifeArtists, Writers, Dancers, pp. xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020