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Author: Tobin, Claudia

United Kingdom, Great Britain

Published on 14 December 2021 by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture’ series.

Paperback | 256 pages, 11 B/W illustrations 26 colour illustrations
156 x 233 x 19 | 474g

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the ‘age of speed’ but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary. It ranges widely in its material, taking Cezanne and literary responses to his still life painting as its point of departure. It investigates constellations of writers, visual artists and dancers including D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, David Jo