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Portraits And Masks

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Author : M. L. Bierbrier
language : en
Publisher: British Museum Press
Release Date : 1997

Portraits And Masks written by M. L. Bierbrier and has been published by British Museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art categories.

The result of a major colloquium on burial customs in Roman Egypt, these papers cover the reasons behind the development of mummy portraits and the society from which they emerged, as well as the artistic techniques employed.

Masks Of Wedlock

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Author : David Ross Smith
language : en
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Release Date : 1982

Masks Of Wedlock written by David Ross Smith and has been published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Art categories.

Portraits And Masks

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961

Portraits And Masks written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.

Wear A Mask

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Author : Martin Stott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

Wear A Mask written by Martin Stott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with COVID-19 (Disease) categories.

Portrait Masks From The Northwest Coast Of America

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Author : Jonathan C. H. King
language : en
Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson
Release Date : 1979

Portrait Masks From The Northwest Coast Of America written by Jonathan C. H. King and has been published by London : Thames and Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Art indien - États-Unis categories.

Includes illustrations of Kwakiutl, Nootkan, Haida, Tsimshian and Tlingit masks.

Portraits In Plaster

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Author : Laurence Hutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-08

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This is a reproduction of a historical book called Portraits in Plaster that was originally published in 1894. It is a fascinating book with over 70 illustrations of plaster mask portraits of some of the word's most influential people from Dante and Shakespeare to Lincoln, Washington and Franklin. See what these people looked like in life and death. Here's is an excerpt:The story of the beginning of my collection of masks is curious and perhaps interesting. The half-dozen casts upon which it is based were found, early in the Sixties, in a dust-bin in one of the old-fashioned streets which run towards the East River, in the neighborhood of Tompkins Square, New York. Their owner had lately died; his unsympathetic and unappreciative heirs had thrown away what they considered "the horrible things;" a small boy had found them, and offered them for sale to a dealer in phrenological casts, who realized their worth, although, in many cases, he did not know whose heads they represented; and so, by chance, they came into my possession, and inspired the search for more.The history of these masks which formed the nucleus of the collection, or the history of the original collector himself, I have never been able to discover. They are, however, the casts most frequently described in the printed lectures of George Combe, who came to America in the winter of 1838-39, and the inference is that they were left here by him in the hands of one of his disciples.The earliest masks in the collection to-day are replicas of those of Dante, made, perhaps, in the first part of the fourteenth century, and of Tasso, certainly made at the end of the sixteenth. The latest mask is that of Edwin Booth, who died only a few months ago. They range from Sir Isaac Newton, the wisest of men, to Sambo, the lowest type of the American negro; from Oliver Cromwell to Henry Clay; from Bonaparte to Grant; from Keats to Leopardi; from Pius IX. to Thomas Paine; from Ben Caunt, the prize-fighter, to Thomas Chalmers, the light of the Scottish pulpit.So far as I have been able to discover, mine is the most nearly complete and the largest collection of its kind in the world. I have, indeed, found nothing anywhere to compare with it. Usually, the Phrenological Museums contain casts of idiots, criminals, and monstrosities, and these are seemingly gathered together to illustrate what man's cranial structure ought not to be. There are but three or four casts of the faces of distinguished persons in the British Museum, and about as many in the National Portrait Gallery in London; and all of these I am able to present here, with the exception of that of James II., who belongs, perhaps, to the criminal class. In the Hohenzollern Museum are many casts, but these generally are those of civic or national celebrities-Berlin aldermen or German warriors, in whom the world at large has but little interest. The casts of Frederick the Great, Queen Louise, Schiller, and one or two more in that institution, however, I was permitted to have reproduced. The others I have gathered after many years of patient and pleasant research in the studios, the curiosity-shops, and the plaster-shops of most of the capitals of Europe and America. The story of this research, with an account of the means taken to identify the masks when they were discovered, could itself make a book of this size. I am sure that mine is the actual death-mask of Aaron Burr, for instance, because I have the personal guarantee of the man who made the mould in 1836; I am positive of the identity of another cast, because I saw it made myself; and concerning still another, I have no question, because I know the man who stole it! In the matter of the great majority of the masks, however, the difficulties were very great. Hardly one per centum of the hundreds of biographers whose works I have consulted ever refer to the taking of a mask in life, or after death, and there is absolutely no literature which is devoted to the subject.

Face And Mask

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Author : Hans Belting
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14

Face And Mask written by Hans Belting and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Art categories.

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual representation. Belting divides his book into three parts: faces as masks of the self, portraiture as a constantly evolving mask in Western culture, and the fate of the face in the age of mass media. Referencing a vast array of sources, Belting's insights draw on art history, philosophy, theories of visual culture, and cognitive science. He demonstrates that Western efforts to portray the face have repeatedly failed, even with the developments of new media such as photography and film, which promise ever-greater degrees of verisimilitude. In spite of sitting at the heart of human expression, the face resists possession, and creative endeavors to capture it inevitably result in masks—hollow signifiers of the humanity they're meant to embody. From creations by Van Eyck and August Sander to works by Francis Bacon, Ingmar Bergman, and Chuck Close, Face and Mask takes a remarkable look at how, through the centuries, the physical visage has inspired and evaded artistic interpretation.