The words "still life" might call to mind opulent displays of food, flowers, glassware and linens arranged on a table and painted with exacting realism by, say, a 17th-century Dutch master. A current exhibition at Burlington's
BCA Center challenges that trope. Or perhaps it's better to say that "More Than an Object: The Contemporary Still Life" pulls our perceptions into the 21st century. In truth, the inanimate tableau has served, and survived, a cascade of art historical trends lo these many years.