Messerschmidt's character heads : maddening sculpture and the writing of art history /
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 strug...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | Studies in art historiography (Farnham (Surrey, England))
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Evans: Library Stacks
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NB511.5.M47 Y66 2018 |
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| NB511.5.M47 Y66 2018 | Available | |