Prologue
Hyperreality and truthiness
Reading Blake's "The Sick rose"
Ethics versus technics in seventeenth-century Dutch still life
Vanitas : the McGuffin of still life
Still life, trade, and truthiness
The pretext of occasion : Floris van Dijck's Laid table with cheese and fruit, c. 1615
Nature mourant : the fictiveness of Dutch realism
The embarrassment of niches : Christoffel van den Berghe's Vase of flowers in a stone niche, 1617
Nature mourant : Bosschaert's Leaves, Merian's Caterpillars
"Small-scale violence"
The darker spirit : Van Huysum's heaps
Posies : the bouquet as pretext of occasion
Joris Hoefnagel and the roots of Dutch flower painting
Conclusion. Allegorical capture and interpretive release.
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Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting by Harry Berger. ISBN 9780823233137. Published by Fordham University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
