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In Pygmalion in Bavaria, Christiane Hertel introduces the sculptor Ignaz Günther, placing him in the historical context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture. She also considers the remarkable aesthetic appeal of Günther’s oeuvre—and connects it to the eighteenth-century art theory that focused on sculpture and the creative paradigm of Pygmalion. Through this interweaving of contexts and discourses, Hertel offers insights into how Rococo art’s own critical dimension positions it against the Enlightenment and introduces a particular notion of subjectivity.

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Now at last Christiane Hertel, professor at Bryn Mawr, will introduce GUnther 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 GUnther 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

Now at last Christiane Hertel, professor at Bryn Mawr, will introduce Gunther 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 Gunther 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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Christiane Hertel is Professor of Art History at Bryn Mawr College.

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