Modernism and Still Life

Explores the ‘still life spirit’ in modern painting, prose, dance, sculpture and poetry Challenges the conventional positioning of still life as a ‘minor’ genre in art historyProposes a radical alternative to narratives of modernism that privilege speed and motion by revealing forms of stillness and still life at the heart of modern literature and visual cultureProvides the first study of still life to consider the genre across modern literature, visual cultures and danceUncovers connections and