Individual Artists, General & Miscellaneous European Art, Art Subjects - General & Miscellaneous, Fauvism, Expressionism & Early Modern Art Movements
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Perhaps the Robert Mapplethorpe of his day. Egon Schiele, who died at the age of twenty-eight, was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the Vienna Secession. Schiele wished to shatter the hypocrisy of Viennese society's facade of propriety. He felt that, regardless of their erotic content, his drawings and watercolors were "still always works of art." Although he was imprisoned for the "immorality" of his art, the passage of time and revisions in modernist critical thinking have led to a significant reevaluation of Schiele's artistic achievement. This extraordinary book of Schiele's erotic drawings, watercolors, and gouaches of male and female nudes includes a selection of twenty-eight color and twelve black and white reproductions. Alessandra Comini's provocative essay, "Schiele's Nudes: Prudence or Pathos?", attempts to illuminate Schiele's psychic and sexuality and their relationship to his erotically charged work.Editorials
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Early 20th-century Viennese society wasn't ready for Egon Schiele. His honest depictions of the naked human form went so far beyond the demure views of the nude in the 19th century that he was eventually imprisoned for being immoral. In the essay "Prudence or Pathos?" Schiele's psychology and aesthetic point of view are dissected to present the portrait of an artist determined to smash the pretenses of a repressed society while expressing his personal longings. Includes 40 illustrations, 28 in full color.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1995
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications
Pages
64
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780847818419