Egon Schiele

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Alessandra Comini

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Egon Schiele was a meteor that flashed across the galaxy of Viennese art at the beginning of the last century. Although he lived only twenty-eight years--dying quite suddenly of influenza in 1918 just as World War I came to an end--he left a stunning pictorial oeuvre. Schiele's obsession with sexuality, his own and that of others, made him at once a voyeur and a participant in that sexual imperative which Freud was concurrently plumbing with such unsettling results. The disturbing revelations of Schiele's unmasking portraiture and of the new science of psychology disclosed a collective cultural anxiety during the last years of the crumbling Austrian empire. Schiele was disturbingly dualistic: his provocative explorations of erotica with their startlingly modern sensibilities do not prepare the viewer for the tenderness revealed in his lyrical landscapes and mostly unpeopled town scenes. These emit a haunting loneliness and are related to an obsession with pathos expressed in the artist's melancholy allegories and existential portraits.

Author Biography:

Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini was awarded Austria's Grand Medal of Honor for her books on Viennese artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Her "Egon Schiele's Portraits" was nominated for the National Book Award and her "The Changing Image of Beethoven" is used in classrooms around the country. Both books in new editions are now available from Sunstone Press as well as "The Fantastic Art of Vienna," "Gustav Klimt," and "Schiele in Prison." Comini's travels, recorded in her memoir, "In Passionate Pursuit," also from Sunstone Press, extend from Europe to Antarctica and are reflected in her Megan Crespi Mystery Series: "The Munch Murders," "Killing for Klimt," "The Schiele Slaughters," "The Kokoschka Capers," "The Kollwitz Calamities," and "The Kandinsky Conundrum," all published by Sunstone Press.

Release date NZ

January 3rd, 2017

Author

Alessandra Comini

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

138

Dimensions

216x279x13

ISBN-13

9781632934482

Product ID

36052715

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