APPEALINGLY UNPEELED: THE LAYERED LEMONS IN DUTCH GOLDEN AGE AND CONTEMPORARY ART
In seventeenth-century Dutch painting, the lemon holds a prominent visual, economical, socio-cultural, and moral position. This trend would then be repeated in contemporary art, beginning in roughly the 1970s. This thesis, in two parts, will explore the significance of the prevalence of the lemon and their recurrent presence in both Dutch Golden Age art and modern and contemporary artwork. This multivalent approach will look at lemons as not only a visual representation of fruit, but a symbol of larger concepts such as globalization, commercialism, colonialism, sexuality, religion, linguistics... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | thesis |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
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University of Montana
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| Schlagwörter: | lemons / vanitas / dutch golden age / contemporary art / Ancient / Medieval / Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture / Fine Arts / Other History of Art / Architecture / and Archaeology / Theory and Criticism |
| Sprache: | unknown |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27064109 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11822 |
In seventeenth-century Dutch painting, the lemon holds a prominent visual, economical, socio-cultural, and moral position. This trend would then be repeated in contemporary art, beginning in roughly the 1970s. This thesis, in two parts, will explore the significance of the prevalence of the lemon and their recurrent presence in both Dutch Golden Age art and modern and contemporary artwork. This multivalent approach will look at lemons as not only a visual representation of fruit, but a symbol of larger concepts such as globalization, commercialism, colonialism, sexuality, religion, linguistics, mythology, and pop culture.