Research Catalog

Title

Die Augen der Bilder : Porträts von Fragonard bis Dumas = The eyes of the pictures : portraits from Fragonard to Dumas / Markus Stegmann ; Museum Langmatt, Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown ; [Texte, Markus Stegmann, Isabel Zürcher ; Übersetzung, Alison Kirkland].

Publication

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, c2017.

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Additional Authors

• Stegmann, Markus, 1962-
• Stiftung "Langmatt" Sidney und Jenny Brown
• Zürcher, Isabel

Description

139 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 27 cm.

Summary

The need for the portrayal of the individual identity is not a modern invention: the idealization of the sitter was already a matter of course in eighteenth and nineteenth century portrait painting. In the exhibition, contemporary portraits are juxtaposed with this convention from an earlier era. What is revealed is a timelessness of the genre, as well as pictoral evidence of social rejection in contemporary portrait painting: loneliness, shattered states, physical and emotional abuse. The exhibition at the Museum Langmatt compares the different epochs and searches for the conventions of contemporary self-portrayal. Portraits by such artists such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Edgar Degas, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir enter into dialogue with internationally renowned contemporary artists like Michaël Borremans, Marlene Dumas, and Luc Tuymans.

Alternative Title

Eyes of the pictures : portraits from Fragonard to Dumas

Subject

• Portrait painting
• Portrait painting > Exhibitions
• Portraits
• Portraits > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum Langmatt, Baden, September 17 - December 10, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Parallel texts in German and English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783775743341
• 3775743340

LCCN

9783775743341

OCLC

1005666698

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library