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Messerschmidt's Character Heads - Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History (Hardcover)
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Messerschmidt's Character Heads - Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Art Historiography
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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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