Under the Spell of Orpheus Sam Wright Max Planck Institute for the

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Under the Spell of Orpheus Sam Wright Max Planck Institute for theThis comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the cliches to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography. The three parts of the book explore the ways in which artists have identified with different aspects of the often