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Ideal and Reality: The Image of the Body in 20th-Century Art from Bonnard to Warhol: Works on Paper

Door Peter Weiermair

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#397381-KN46
Titel	Ideal and Reality: The Image of the Body in 20th-Century Art from Bonnard to Warhol: Works on Paper
Auteur	Weiermair, Peter
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Zurich/New York : Edition Stemmle
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	3908161517
ISBN13	9783908161516
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, dust jacket, illustrations mostly in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting	A comprehensive survey of the image of the human body in 20th-century art, featuring drawings, gouaches, pastels, and watercolors by 200 artists. In the course of the 20th century, the body has become the focus of the conflict between norms and deviation, order and excess -- the symbol of a constantly changing concept of human beauty. Covering a broad segment of the history of art in our century, Ideal and Reality focuses on the tradition of figural representation and the artist's approach to the image of the nude human body. The selection provides not only a survey of the various approaches to the representation of the body in drawing, but also documents the erotic fascination with which artists have viewed the body. This fascination is evident in the early years of the century in powerfu... (Lees verder)l works by Klimt, Schiele, Rodin, and Matisse, in which the drawing came to represent the immediate expression of erotic desire. The successive phases of the modern era -- from Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Neoclassicism, and New Objectivity to the figural work of artists on the fringe of the contemporary art scene -- reflect the stages in the evolutionary process that has changed the artists image of the body over the past 100 years.
Pagina's	287
Conditie	Goed — Foxing top cut and top edge verso dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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