Physiognomy, The Beautiful Pseudoscience
How did this dubious science influence European art and culture?
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
Victims of Soicumstance: My Automatic Visual Reactions to Messerschmidt
Big, bald, and menacing: reactions to Messerschmidt’s A Hypocrite and a Slanderer.
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Curator’s Diary: Installing “Messerschmidt and Modernity”
A curator gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse at installing an exhibition.
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In Search of Messerschmidt’s “Vexed Man”
New for summer 2012—The Vexed Man is back at the Getty, but he’s moved from his usual haunts for the exhibition Messerschmidt and Modernity,... Read More