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An introduction to the work of Egon Schiele.

Christopher Short

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Price: USD$11.95

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Overview

One of a series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art
This volume on Schiele contains an extensive essay, 48 full-page colour plates, and is accompanied by extensive notes and comparative illustrations
Provides incomparable value
Highly regarded for its insight and authority

Specifications

Paperback
English
290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in
128 pp
50 colour illustrations, 36 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714833934
ISBN-10: 0714833932

About the book

Egon Schiele was born in Vienna in 1890, growing up in the same milieu that nurtured the theories of Freud. Showing a precious talent as a child, he developed a distinctive personal style that matched his anguished obsession with sex, life and death. His nudes and self-portraits, with their unflinching honesty, are among the most intense and powerful portrayals of sexual feeling in Western art. Although he died young he produced a body of paintings, watercolours and drawings that rank him among the most original artists of the early twentieth century, and an important forerunner of the Expressionist movement.

In this book Christopher Short presents a biographical introduction and survey of Schiele’s art, followed by detailed commentaries on a selection of 48 male and female nudes, self-portraits, portraits, landscapes and allegorical works representing a full cross-section of the artist’s finest works in all media.

In The Press

'Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers.' (Independent)

About the author(s)

Dr Christopher Short lectures on the history and theory of art in the School of Fine Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.