The Escape - From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions (Hardcover)

Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction--a series of abstract drawings recalling vestiges of the human face animated by emotion. But Schutter's drawings are neither copies nor portraiture. Rather, they are reflections on how Lebrun's renderings were made. Collected here, Schutter's work recreates not the subject matter but the very values of Lebrun's drawings--light, gesture, scale, and handling of materials. The cross-hatching in the original was used to make classical tone and volume, in Schutter's hand the technique makes for unstable impressions of strained neck and deeply furrowed brow, or for drawing marks and scribbles unto themselves. As such, these drawings end up denying a neat closure--unlike their academic source material--and render unsettling states of mind that require repeated viewing. Accompanied by essays from art critic Barry Schwabsky and Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete, The Escape will appeal to students, critics, and admirers of seventeenth-century, modern, and contemporary art alike.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	David Schutter
Memoir by:	Barry Schwabsky • Dieter Roelstraete
Dimensions:	279 x 210 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-46119-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Baroque art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, First World War to 1960 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-46119-X
Barcode:	9780226461199

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