Messerschmidt's Character Heads: Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History (Studies in Art Historiography) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
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| Management number | 219232067 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $21.66 | Model Number | 219232067 | ||
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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. Read more
| XRay | Not Enabled |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1315448381 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 7.3 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Word Wise | Not Enabled |
| Print length | 208 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Part of series | Studies in Art Historiography |
| Publication date | September 22, 2017 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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