Umfang:
340 Seiten :
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Illustrationen (überwiegend farbig) ;
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26 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-226-74504-6
Inhalt:
Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune
Inhalt:
"Human Dispositions explores new conventions for posing and positioning human figures in pictorial, architectural, and theatrical space in Europe in the decades leading up to WWI. The author contends that questions of "disposition" are vital to understanding a key transitional period in the history of Western modernism. Around 1885, avant-garde artists began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, compared with standard, classical representations of the human figure, was both archaic and advanced, in keeping with contemporary theories of evolution and human psychology. These new ways of posing figures was how modern artists challenged long, deeply held assumptions about human consciousness and the human being's privileged status in the world. Featured are three major works: the painting Poseuses (1886-1888) by the French Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat; the Beethovenfries mural (1902) by the Austrian Secessionist painter Gustav Klimt; and the ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune (1912) by the Russian dancer and Ballets Russes choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. Each work created an uproar when first presented. They were meant to be manifestos for the new values of a modern world and to overturn the superior, cerebral, moral status of the human subject"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-74518-3
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Kunstgeschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Personendarstellung
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Pose
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Kunst
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Theater
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Tanz
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Conditio humana
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Kunst
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Personendarstellung
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Pose
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Rezeption
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1859-1891 Un dimanche à la Grande-Jatte Seurat, Georges
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Kunst
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Personendarstellung
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Pose
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Rezeption
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1862-1918 Beethovenfries Klimt, Gustav
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Kunst
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Pose
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Rezeption
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1889-1950 Nižinskij, Vaclav F.
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Ballett
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Choreografie
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1862-1918 Debussy, Claude
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1842-1898 L' après-midi d'un faune Mallarmé, Stéphane
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Kunst
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Tanz
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Körper
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Pose
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Motiv
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Figur
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Darstellung
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1859-1891 Seurat, Georges
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1862-1918 Klimt, Gustav
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1889-1950 Nižinskij, Vaclav F.
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