Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 152 views

    Matthias Buchinger - 'The Greatest German Living'

    Uploaded by

    Artdata
    Matthias Buchinger was a remarkable performer and artist born in the late 17th century without arms or legs. He performed magic tricks, played musical instruments, danced, and produced intricate drawings and calligraphy. Despite his disabilities, he lived to age 65 and fathered 14 children. The book examines Buchinger's life and artwork through drawings, etchings, and the author's research into the "Little Man's" mythology and encounters.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Matthias Buchinger - 'The Greatest German Living'

    Uploaded by

    Artdata
    152 views4 pages
    Matthias Buchinger was a remarkable performer and artist born in the late 17th century without arms or legs. He performed magic tricks, played musical instruments, danced, and produced intricate drawings and calligraphy. Despite his disabilities, he lived to age 65 and fathered 14 children. The book examines Buchinger's life and artwork through drawings, etchings, and the author's research into the "Little Man's" mythology and encounters.

    Original Description:

    Siglio Feb 2016

    Original Title

    Siglio Feb 2016

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Matthias Buchinger was a remarkable performer and artist born in the late 17th century without arms or legs. He performed magic tricks, played musical instruments, danced, and produced intricate drawings and calligraphy. Despite his disabilities, he lived to age 65 and fathered 14 children. The book examines Buchinger's life and artwork through drawings, etchings, and the author's research into the "Little Man's" mythology and encounters.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    152 views4 pages

    Matthias Buchinger - 'The Greatest German Living'

    Uploaded by

    Artdata
    Matthias Buchinger was a remarkable performer and artist born in the late 17th century without arms or legs. He performed magic tricks, played musical instruments, danced, and produced intricate drawings and calligraphy. Despite his disabilities, he lived to age 65 and fathered 14 children. The book examines Buchinger's life and artwork through drawings, etchings, and the author's research into the "Little Man's" mythology and encounters.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 4

    ART

    Matthias Buchinger - 'The Greatest German Living'


    Siglio 2016 ISBN 9781938221125 Acqn 25901
    Hb 20x25cm 160pp ills 32
    Matthias Buchinger (16741739) performed on more than a half-dozen musical instruments,
    some of his own invention. He exhibited trick shots with pistols, swords and bowling. He danced
    the hornpipe and deceived audiences with his skill in magic. He was a remarkable calligrapher
    specializing in micrographyhandsome, precise letters almost impossible to view with the naked
    eyeand he drew portraits, coats of arms, landscapes and family trees, many commissioned by
    royalty. Amazingly, Buchinger was just 29 inches tall, and born without legs or arms. He lived to
    the ripe old age of 65, survived three wives, wed a fourth and fathered 14 children.
    Accompanying the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Wordplay: Matthias Buchingers
    Inventive Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay, the book is a cabinet containing a single,
    multifaceted wonder, refracted through author Ricky Jays scholarship and storytelling. Alongside
    an unprecedented and sumptuously reproduced selection of Buchingers marvelous drawings and
    etchings, Jay delves into the history and mythology of the "Little Man," while also chronicling his
    encounters with the many fascinating characters whom he meets in his passionate search for
    Buchinger.
    Ricky Jay is considered one of the worlds great sleight-of-hand artists. His career is further
    distinguished by his accomplishments as author, actor and historian of "unusual entertainments."
    He has appeared in films directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Gus Van Sant and David Mamet.
    His Jays Journal of Anomalies and Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women were New York Times
    "Notable Books." The subject of the documentary Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practices, Jay is the only
    conjurer to be profiled in the PBS series American Masters.

    [email protected]
    www.artdata.co.uk

    ART

    [email protected]
    www.artdata.co.uk

    ART

    Marcel Broodthaers - My Ogre Book, Shadow Theater, Midnight


    Siglio 2016 ISBN 9781938221118 Acqn 25902
    Hb 15x20cm 160pp 80col ills 32
    This intimate and gorgeously produced book pairs Belgian artist-poet Marcel Broodthaers first
    two collections of poetry, My Ogre Book (1957) and Midnight (1960)both previously
    unpublished in Englishwith an 80-image projection work, Shadow Theater (197374), made
    toward the end of his too-brief life. Together these works reveal a dizzyingly prodigious interplay
    between the images and texts, particularly illuminating Broodthaers use of the oblique and dark
    fairytale framework within (and against) which he plays with reflections and reproductions,
    inversions and fictions, body and shadow, decor and violence. My Ogre Book (Mon livre dogre)
    and Midnight (Minuit) served as a wellspring for Broodthaers later visual work: he continually
    recycled and reworked them into new schemata in his installations, films, sculptures and
    paintings. Both are wildly cinematic books that perform like a fictional theater set (or museum) for
    a dark fable of which we are only dimly aware. In this vein, Shadow Theater (Ombres chinoises),
    published in full for the first time here, creates a fantastical poetic landscape of semblance and
    sleights of hand. The three works are published together to provide the reader with an
    unprecedented opportunity to read Broodthaers in both language and image.

    [email protected]
    www.artdata.co.uk

    ART

    [email protected]
    www.artdata.co.uk

    You might also like