What is Real? What is True?
Picturing Figures and Faces
Published on 10. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-90-76714-63-9 (ISBN)
Description
What is real? What is true? Picturing Figures and Faces collects theoretical essays and artists' studies, published between 1988 and 2019, devoted to the artistic representation of the human figure. They deal with the portrait and the death mask, the body and suffering, and with Egon Schiele, Rene Magritte, Balthus, On Kawara, Paul De Vylder, Jan Vercruysse, Bill Viola, Anthony Gormley, Jan Fabre, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Dirk Braeckman and Elly Strik. The texts are richly illustrated, the book is designed by Antoon De Vylder.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Schoten
Belgium
Illustrations
230 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 215 mm
Weight
1402 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-76714-63-9 (9789076714639)
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Bart Verschaffel is a philosopher and professor at Ghent University. In 2021 he will publish What Artistry can do. Essays on Art and Beauty by Edinburgh UP.