The Escape: From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions - Hardcover

Schutter, David

 
9780226461199: The Escape: From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 022646119X ISBN 13: 9780226461199
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Charles Le Brun’s drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter’s work, Le Brun’s manual is set to a different direction—a series of abstract drawings recalling vestiges of the human face animated by emotion. But Schutter’s drawings are neither copies nor portraiture. Rather, they are reflections on how Lebrun’s renderings were made.

Collected here, Schutter’s work recreates not the subject matter but the very values of Lebrun’s drawings—light, gesture, scale, and handling of materials. The cross-hatching in the original was used to make classical tone and volume, in Schutter’s hand the technique makes for unstable impressions of strained neck and deeply furrowed brow, or for drawing marks and scribbles unto themselves. As such, these drawings end up denying a neat closure—unlike their academic source material—and render unsettling states of mind that require repeated viewing. Accompanied by essays from art critic Barry Schwabsky and Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete, The Escape will appeal to students, critics, and admirers of seventeenth-century, modern, and contemporary art alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Schutter is professor in the Institut für Kunst at the Universität der Künste, Berlin and visiting professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.
 

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022646119X
ISBN 13 
9780226461199
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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