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German Sculpture, 1430-1540
A comprehensive catalogue of late gothic and early renaissance German sculpture from the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum - probably the largest outside Germany.
Franz Bernhard - The human figure
From the 1960s, the German sculptor Franz Bernhard chose to limit his use of materials to wood and iron. The autonomous, constructivist constellation of forms and the image of man--especially the head as a key motif--were the primary focus of his oeuvre. In the juxtaposition of construction and dynamism, instability and solidity, Franz Bernhard captured the contradictory nature of modern man manifested as a grand sculptural presence.
German Expressionist Sculpture
The volume presents a survey of German expressionist sculpture. Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. The term is sometimes suggestive of emotional angst. The Expressionist emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such as naturalism and impressionism. This work contains ...
Museums in the German Art World from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
"The first study of its kind, this book will appeal to historians, museum professionals, and anyone interested in the relationship between art, politics, and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Carved Splendor
"The color photographs, specially commissioned for this project, are an essential feature of the book. Each altarpiece is illustrated in its entirety, with its wings both opened and closed, and in close-up views of its most important carvings and paintings - details that are not available to the average visitor to these sites."--BOOK JACKET.
Messerschmidt's Character Heads
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 to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane, while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures are simultaneously explorations of art’s power and also critiques of the aesthetic limits that would be placed on that power.
