Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Human Dispositions explores new conventions for posing and positioning human figures in pictorial, architectural, and theatrical space in Europe in the decades leading up to WWI. The author contends that questions of "disposition" are vital to understanding a key transitional period in the history of Western modernism. Around 1885, avant-garde artists began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, compared...
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