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Author | : Antonia Boström |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2012-09-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892369744 |
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An astonishing group of sixty-nine “Character Heads” by German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) has fascinated viewers, artists, and collectors for more than two centuries. The heads, carved in alabaster or cast in lead or tin alloy, were conceived outside the norm of conventional portrait sculpture and explore the furthest limits of human expression. Since their first exposure to the public in 1793, artists, including Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Arnulf Rainer (born 1929), and, more recently, Tony Cragg (born 1949) and Tony Bevan (born 1951), have responded to their overwhelming visual power. Lavishly illustrated, Messerschmidt and Modernity presents remarkable works created by and inspired by Messerschmidt, an artist both of and ahead of his time. The Character Heads situate the artist’s work squarely within the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment, with its focus on expression and emotion. Yet their uncompromising style stands in sharp contrast to the florid Baroque style of Messerschmidt’s earlier sculptures for the court of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. With their strict frontality and narrow silhouettes, the Character Heads appear to contemporary eyes as having been conceived in a “modern” aesthetic. Their position at the apparent limits of rational art have made them compelling to successive generations of artists working in a variety of media.
Author | : Michael Yonan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1315448386 |
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This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his "Character Heads." These are busts of human heads, highly unconventional for their time, representing strange, often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane, while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures are simultaneously explorations of art’s power and also critiques of the aesthetic limits that would be placed on that power.
Author | : Michael Yonan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781315448404 |
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This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) known as his "Character Heads." These are busts of human heads, highly unconventional for their time, representing strange, often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane, while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures are simultaneously explorations of art's power and also critiques of the aesthetic limits that would be placed on that power.
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Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Franz Xaver Messerschmidt |
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Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Facial expression in art |
ISBN | : 9780905263717 |
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Author | : Nathan Timpano |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2017-05-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1315413671 |
Download Constructing the Viennese Modern Body Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna? By scrutinizing theatrically “hysterical” performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan J. Timpano discusses how Viennese artists favored the pathological or puppet-like body as their contribution to European modernism.
Author | : Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) |
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Release | : 1986* |
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Download Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Character Heads, 1770-1793, Arnulf Rainer, Overdrawings Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Franz Xaver Messerschmidt |
Publisher | : Hirmer Verlag GmbH |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) is one of the most fascinating sculptors of the Enlightenment. His portraits - of members of the Imperial household as well as eminent philosophers and scholars - show how far he surpassed traditional portrait styles. German text. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) ist bis heute einer der faszinierendsten Bildhauer der Aufklarung. Selbst wer mit dem Namen des Kunstlers nichts verbindet, ist doch seinen beruhmtesten Werken schon einmal begegnet: den Charakterkopfen. Fur seine fruhesten Werke, im wesentlichen Portrats des Kaiserhauses, erfuhr Messerschmidt allerhochste Zustimmung. Auch bedeutende Aufklarer und Gelehrte liessen sich von ihm portratieren. Mit diesen Portrats sagte er sich von der traditionellen Portratform los.
Author | : Shearer West |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2004-04-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0192842587 |
Download Portraiture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity, and gender are considered within a cultural and historical context.Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, featuring examples from African tribes to Renaissance princes, and from 'stars' such as David and Victoria Beckham to ordinary people. In the process, she shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way.
Author | : David Maclagan |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1780231318 |
Download Line Let Loose Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As forms of drawing go, scribbling is the most basic: it is seen as playing a formative role in the drawings of both children and primates. Doodling, while still being a widespread phenomenon, is largely an adult preoccupation—a nomadic form of drawing typically produced during meetings and phone calls. But even though those who engage in it are not necessarily trained artists, automatic drawing is a more dramatic event, and the results of an absentminded or trancelike state are sometimes astonishing. Because of their amateur and spontaneous character, all three forms of drawing have been adopted by modern artists seeking to escape from the constraints of their professional skills. In Line Let Loose, David Maclagan shows that each of these marginal forms of drawing has its own history in spiritualism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and psychedelic art. Referring to Klee, Pollock, Miro, Twombly, and LeWitt, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous artists, he traces the links between them and a pervasive notion of the spontaneous and ‘unconscious’ creation of forms in art. He suggests that the original novelty of these unconventional drawing processes has begun to wear off, and he explores their new situation in our modern digital culture.