# Objects on a Table

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- Book: [Objects on a Table](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-davenport/objects-on-a-table) ([Objects on a Table.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-davenport/objects-on-a-table.md))
- Authors: [Guy Davenport](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-davenport)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-15-8243-035-5
- Pages: 136
- Published: 1999-07-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This collection of four essays on the art of the still life begins with a look back to pictures of meals painted on the walls of Egyptian tombs--as the author points out, the soul could eat. Davenport’s...