From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London

From Still Life to the Screen explores the print culture of 18th—century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets, the connoisseur’s fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and ornament in satires of fashion. The desire for goods emerged in tandem with modern notions of identity, in which things were seen to mirror and symbolize t...