This comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the clich???s to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography. The three parts of the book explore the ways in which artists have identified with different aspects of the often paradoxical Orpheus myth. The first deals with artists such as Paul Klee, ...
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This comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the clich???s to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography. The three parts of the book explore the ways in which artists have identified with different aspects of the often paradoxical Orpheus myth. The first deals with artists such as Paul Klee, Carl Milles, and Barbara Hepworth. In the second, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, and Isamu Noguchi are discussed. Artists examined in the final part include Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Ethel Schwabacher, and Cy Twombly. The author documents her argument with more than sixty illustrations.
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Add this copy of Under the Spell of Orpheus the Persistence of a Myth in to cart. $123.82, good condition, Sold by Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dulverton, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1991 by Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. 0809316595.
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1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (top edge a little dust stained-otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. xxv + 235, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).
Add this copy of Under the Spell of Orpheus: the Persistence of a Myth to cart. $134.73, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Southern Illinois University P.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Small quarto. 235pp. Corners lightly bumped, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with modest edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. In this book Bernstock breaks down the Orpheus myth into three parts: The Fulfillment of an Ego Ideal, The Critical Self-Image, and Death and Suffering. The psychological and literary analysis is accompanied by 61 illustrations and a select bibliography. An important work, and of most interest to the serious student of modern art.
