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Title

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt / edited by Maria Pötzl-Malikova and Guilhem Scherf ; with contributions by Antonia Boström ... [et al.].

Author

Neue Galerie New York.

Publication

Milano : Officina Libraria ; [New York, N.Y.] : Neue Galerie New York ; Paris : Louvre éditions, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Pötzl-Malikova, Maria.
• Scherf, Guilhem.
• Boström, Antonia
• Musée du Louvre

Description

219 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.

Summary

This publication focuses on Messerschmidt's famous character heads, which rendered, with great precision, his distorted face and whose expressive intensity places them amongst the masterpieces of 18th century sculpture.

Alternative Title

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736-1783 : from neoclassicism to expressionism

Subject

• Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver, 1736?-1783 > Exhibitions
• Facial expression in art > Exhibitions
• Physiognomy in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Neue Galerie New York, New York, N.Y., Sept. 16, 2010-Jan. 10, 2011 and at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Jan. 26-Apr. 25, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-218).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Ronald S. Lauder -- Foreword / Renée Price -- Foreword / Henri Loyrette -- The life and work of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt / Maria Pötzl-Malikova -- Messerschmidt's Portraits and heads : a singular art / Guilhem Scherf -- Messerschmidt's Artistic reception at the two Fins-de-Siècle / Antonia Boström -- Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's "Character Heads" : the conflicting nature of the mirror relation / Marie-Claude Lambotte.

ISBN

• 9788889854549 (Officina Libraria)
• 8889854545 (Officina Libraria)
• 9782350312903 (Musée du Louvre)
• 2350312909 (Musée du Louvre)

LCCN

^^2010909954

OCLC

641500998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library