| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Studies in Art Historiography |
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Studies in art historiography
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Part I Writing the Artist's Mind; 1 Nicolai's Dreamer; Nicolai's Popular Philosophy; The Philosopher and the Sensitive Soul; Fabulism and Fantastic Art; Characterizing the German Artist; Dangerous Schwärmerei; Nicolai's Visions; Notes; 2 Kris's Psychotic; Kris's Case; Homosexuality and Creativity; Experiments of Nature; Messerschmidt in Postwar America; Legend, Myth, and Magic; Notes; Part II Writing the Artist's Context; 3 Mesmer's Acolyte; Parallel Lives |
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Science in Eighteenth-Century ViennaMagnets from Hell; What Happened in 1775; Magnetic Messerschmidt; Mesmerizing Art; Notes; 4 Lichtenberg's Ally; The Hogarth of Sculpture; Messerschmidt and Ducreux; Splenetic Englishmen; Lavater's Spleen; Lichtenberg's Passion; Messerschmidt's Satire; Notes; Part III Writing the Artist's Project; 5 The Game of Making; The Shape of Emotion; Permutations of the Theme; Process and Production; Patterns and Systems; Messerschmidt's Rococo; Notes; 6 The Envy of the Gods; The Vienna Academy Reformed; Messerschmidt and Sperges; Messerschmidt and Kaunitz |
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The Heroic Ideal"The Curtains Have Opened to Reveal the Puppet Show"; Köremon's Nature and Art; Ironically, the Future; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver, 1736?-1783 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver, 1736?-1783 -- Psychology
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| SUBJECT |
Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver, 1736?-1783 fast |
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Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver 1736-1783 Charakterköpfe gnd |
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Busts -- Germany
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Art -- Historiography.
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Aesthetics.
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
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Aesthetics
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Art -- Historiography
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Busts
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Psychology
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315448404 |
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1315448408 |
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9781315448381 |
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1315448386 |
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