A number of writers have noted the influence of Ernst Benkard’s 1927 book of death masks, Das Ewige Antlitz, on Modernist artists and writers of the inter-war period. This article links it specifically to the emergence in the late 1920s of a very particular way of photographing people, termed here “the floating face”, which is epitomised in publicity portraits of Greta Garbo. It is suggested that this photographic convention is linked to changing attitudes associated with war, to the techniques of cinema, and to surrealism, but also to the influence of Benkard’s book. The resemblance between the death mask image and movie star portrait is significant for an understanding of the origins and affective impact of a certain photographic style. T...
The emergence of the so-called primitive masking its way into the art world of the twentieth centu...
The purpose of the article is to identify the features of makeup and masks in different genre stage ...
Plaster death mask of Paul Ehlrich, his expression almost as if asleep. The detail of his facial hai...
A number of writers have noted the influence of Ernst Benkard’s 1927 book of death masks, Das Ewige ...
This dissertation is a study of the mask as literary trope in European literature between 1890 and 1...
It is clear to any viewer that twentieth-century art encompasses a range and variety of styles unpre...
During the Weimar Republic three books that shared the morbid subject of death masks, were published...
Hollywood glamour portraits came into fashion in the 1930s, following the increasing popularity of c...
During the first half of the 1930s, the idea of glamour was changing. Early in the decade, the term ...
My dissertation examines the emergence of photographic portraiture as a vehicle for illuminating the...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
In the late 1910s, the Berlin-based dancer Anita Berber became internationally famous for her fashio...
At the turn of the nineteenth century, as inquiries about degeneration shaped medical, anthropologic...
Abstract: This article stems from my ongoing, rather speculative research into a category of photogr...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
The emergence of the so-called primitive masking its way into the art world of the twentieth centu...
The purpose of the article is to identify the features of makeup and masks in different genre stage ...
Plaster death mask of Paul Ehlrich, his expression almost as if asleep. The detail of his facial hai...
A number of writers have noted the influence of Ernst Benkard’s 1927 book of death masks, Das Ewige ...
This dissertation is a study of the mask as literary trope in European literature between 1890 and 1...
It is clear to any viewer that twentieth-century art encompasses a range and variety of styles unpre...
During the Weimar Republic three books that shared the morbid subject of death masks, were published...
Hollywood glamour portraits came into fashion in the 1930s, following the increasing popularity of c...
During the first half of the 1930s, the idea of glamour was changing. Early in the decade, the term ...
My dissertation examines the emergence of photographic portraiture as a vehicle for illuminating the...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
In the late 1910s, the Berlin-based dancer Anita Berber became internationally famous for her fashio...
At the turn of the nineteenth century, as inquiries about degeneration shaped medical, anthropologic...
Abstract: This article stems from my ongoing, rather speculative research into a category of photogr...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
The emergence of the so-called primitive masking its way into the art world of the twentieth centu...
The purpose of the article is to identify the features of makeup and masks in different genre stage ...
Plaster death mask of Paul Ehlrich, his expression almost as if asleep. The detail of his facial hai...