Filming the Dutch still life : Peter Greenaway’s objects
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.14, No.1, 2006, pages 199-218
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The object of art 2 - Film and painting
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This article examines the symbolic and visual function of objects in four of Peter Greenaway's films made in the 1980s, a period when the filmmaker was exploring the relation between cinema and painting. It traces his references to the objects of seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting and, informed by art-historical criticism on the subject, argues for the objects' multivalent nature, varying from symbols and allegories to visual and material props. His treatment of decay and his study of the human dependence on material culture in films like A Zed and Two Noughts and Drowning by Numbers have their visual origins in the images of Dutch still life. In true Dutch mode Greenaway employs fruits, flowers and food in order to shift subject/ object hierarchies and foreground the material aspect of being human.
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