A detail of Grünewald’s Crucifixion, the central panel of the Isenheim alterpiece, is the cover image for John Willett’s 1970 survey of Expressionism, published by the World University Library. The Crucifixion, which long languished unvisited and unappreciated, was rediscovered by the early Expressionists in both art and literature, as the below excerpt from Huysmans’ LÃ -Bas [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 04:26PM on August 30, 2011