Masques Mascarades Mascarons
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
8897737374
ISBN-13
9788897737377
Publisher
Officina Libraria
Imprint
Officina Libraria
Country of Manufacture
IT
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 10th, 2014
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
1,640 grams
Dimensions
28.10 x 24.70 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
The arts: general issues
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Providing a source book for those interested in masks, but also of interest to general art historians, theatre and performing arts fans and historians of classical civilisation.
Since Antiquity humanity has masked itself. The mask hides the face, but this very act reveals the presence of a double. The mask gives birth to mystery: it belongs, at the same time, to the sacred and the profane, to truth and vanity, to reality and fiction.
The exhibition catalogue presents a vast array of works of art: from the mask of Dyonisus (5th century BC) to Man Ray''s photos, but also Mantegna''s and Callot''s etchings, the watercolours for Louis XIV''s court theatre, the death masks of the Italian and French Renaissance, the Mannerist Gorgon heads sculpted on the parade shields to imitate the petrifying head of the Gorgon on Athena''s shield.
The catalogue examines the religious role of the mask in Greek theatre, its expressive, playful and at times diabolical force in feasts, balls and the Italian Commedia, its role in funerary contexts (death mask) and its apotropaic function in burials. It also investigates its uses as ornamental element (large, grotesque masks).
Text in French
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