{"product_id":"16202-art-to-hear-masks-metamorphoses-of-the-face","title":"Art to Hear: Masks. Metamorphoses of the Face","description":"\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eThis audiobook undertakes nothing less than a brief history of the mask from antiquity to the twentieth century. Mask were initially casts made from nature. They could be found in any artist’s studio, sometimes even whole piles of them. Masks often served as models for the execution of a portrait. Even death masks were collected: Napoleon, Géricault, Beethoven. Their very special expressiveness, the fragmented face, inspired numerous sculptors to produce hallucinatory representations.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eThis guided audio tour tells of masks’ “alarming strangeness” and their fantastically designed forms based on about forty masterpieces from various cultures dating from between 1860 and 1930. Literary sources by writers such as Oscar Wilde or Claude Lévi-Strauss round off the picture. The accompanying book presents annotated works by, among others, Auguste Rodin, Paul Gauguin, and Arnold Böcklin in large-format color illustrations. (German edition\u0026nbsp;ISBN 978-3-7757-2391-6)\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eExhibitions: Musée d’ Orsay,\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003e Paris\u003c\/st1:city\u003e, October 21, 2008–February 10, 2009 · Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, March 8–June 7, 2009 · Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, \u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eCopenhagen\u003c\/st1:city\u003e, August 6–October 25, 2009\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eIn conjunction with this exhibition a\u0026nbsp; catalogue (978-3-7757-2387-9 \u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"\u003e) is\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u0026nbsp;also available.\u003c\/FONT\u003e \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49811857703176,"sku":"9783775724166","price":16.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775724166_ae9f7083-5f59-4f0e-9aa3-456c3208fb8e.jpg?v=1744045046","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16202-art-to-hear-masks-metamorphoses-of-the-face","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}