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Gericault: Images of Life and Death [Theodore]

Frankfurt / Munich: Schirn Kunsthalle / Hirmer Verlag, 2014. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2331803
ISBN: 9783777420684

First edition. Minor abrasion on base of front board, light smudge on rear board. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

223, [1] pp. A monograph released in conjunction with an exhibition of Gericault's artworks. Theodore Gericault was an important artist of the Romantic movement, best known for The Raft of Medusa. From the foreword: "The exhibition focuses on two of the artist's central themes: the physical suffering and mental anguish of modern man. Gericault's depictions of existential situations - madness and illness, suffering and death - produced in the period between 1812 and his early death in 1824, were absolutely revolutionary. To this day his works, with their profoundly human subject matter, have lost none of their shattering impact. Gericault is modern in that he ennobled arbitrary people and creatures by making them the subjects of probing, even tragic portraits. He managed to present a realistic view of social conditions and in so doing expose the presence of violence, suffering, pain and death beneath the surface of everyday life. His engagement with the profound depths of human existence and man's inner nature manifests itself neither in voyeuristic imagined horrors nor in metaphysical speculation, but is rather related to the analytical stance of the inquisitive scientist or unbiased journalist. With his pictures of madness and death, combining the unsentimental gaze of science and Romanticism's positive notion of horror, Gericault played a substantial role in the development of modern subject matter."

Price: $450.00