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Pygmalion in Bavaria : the sculptor Ignaz Günther and eighteenth-century aesthetic art theory

Title
Pygmalion in Bavaria : the sculptor Ignaz Günther and eighteenth-century aesthetic art theory / Christiane Hertel.
ISBN
9780271037370 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271037377 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xviii, 270 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Summary
"Examines the work of eighteenth-century sculptor Ignaz Günther within the context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Sculptor Ignaz Günther and eighteenth-century aesthetic art theory
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Ignaz Günther (1725-1775)
Pygmalion in Bavaria
Sculpture and religious culture in Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Unruly art : Günther's angels and their behavior in church
Günther's Kerkerheiland and rebellious humility
Günther in Weyarn and the liberties of procession sculpture
"Broken unity" : Günther's self-reflective viewers
Pygmalion intention, Pygmalion reverie.
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