Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History
by
Michael Yonan
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
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...