Abstract
Exhibition review of Feuerbach's Muses - Lagerfeld's Models at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 21 February - 15 June 2014, curated by Hubertus Gaßner and Luisa Pauline Fink. This was a double exhibition featuring recent black-and-white art photography by the fashion designer/photographer Karl Lagerfeld (b. 1933) and the romantic-realist paintings by Anselm Feuerbach (1829-80). The review compares Lagerfeld's series of photos inspired by Daphnis and Chloe, the romance novel by the ancient Greek writer Longus with Feuerbach's classically-themed paintings, particularly their shared theme of the model as muse. It is also suggested by the reviewer that Lagerfeld's photographic re-presentation of the novel by Longus' constitutes a reversal of that author's original ekphrasis and that, in doing so, Lagerfeld also evokes painterly pastorals done by eighteenth-century French artists such as François Boucher.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 83-90 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISSN | 2045-2349 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities