The Escape: From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions

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David Schutter Barry Schwabsky

The Escape

From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions

David Schutter, Barry Schwabsky, Dieter Roelstraete

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University of Chicago Press
05 October 2021

Charles Le Brun’s drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter’s work, Le Brun’s manual is set to a different direction—a series of abstract drawings recalling vestiges of the human face animated by emotion. But Schutter’s drawings are neither copies nor portraiture. Rather, they are reflections on how Lebrun’s renderings were made.

Collected here, Schutter’s work recreates not the subject matter but the very values of Lebrun’s drawings—light, gesture, scale, and handling of materials. The cross-hatching in the original was used to make classical tone and volume, in Schutter’s hand the technique makes for unstable impressions of strained neck and deeply furrowed brow, or for drawing marks and scribbles unto themselves. As such, these drawings end up denying a neat closure—unlike their academic source material—and render unsettling states of mind that require repeated viewing. Accompanied by essays from art critic Barry Schwabsky and Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete, The Escape will appeal to students, critics, and admirers of seventeenth-century, modern, and contemporary art alike.

By: David Schutter
Memoir by: Barry Schwabsky, Dieter Roelstraete
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9780226461199
ISBN 10: 022646119X
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 05 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Schutter is professor in the Institut fur Kunst at the Universitat der Kunste, Berlin and visiting professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.