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Pygmalion in Bavaria:

The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Art Theory
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Examines the work of eighteenth-century sculptor Ignaz Günther within the context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Ignaz Günther (1725–1775)

2. Pygmalion in Bavaria

3. Sculpture and Religious Culture in Counter-Reformation Bavaria

4. Unruly Art: Günther’s Angels and Their Behavior in Church

5. Günther’s Kerkerheiland and Rebellious Humility

6. Günther in Weyarn and the Liberties of Procession Sculpture

7. “Broken Unity”: Günther’s Self-Reflective Viewers

8. Pygmalion Intention, Pygmalion Reverie

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Now at last Christiane Hertel, professor at Bryn Mawr, will introduce Günther in English to future generations with a thoughtful book that goes well beyond the conventional monograph to probe the Bavarian Rococo, for example as a religious combination of the visionary with a personally subjective totality, ‘commemorative in a quasi-Lutheran sense.’ Such piety distances Ignaz Günther from modern taste, so here Hertel fills a real need to reconstitute his aesthetic ambitions, while subtly suggesting that his works may lie open to theological questioning in their own era.”

—Larry Silver, Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter

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