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Paperback. Series: World of Art S. Num Pages: 216 pages, 151 illustrations, 20 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; 3JJ; ACXD1; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Frontispiece present and all illustrations present
Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay. Schiele was only twenty-eight when he died, yet he left behind him a body of work that sustains a huge public reputation - and a myth. This book sets out to examine both.
Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay. Schiele was only twenty-eight when he died, yet he left behind him a body of work that sustains a huge public reputation - and a myth. This book sets out to examine both.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
World of Art S.
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500201831
SKU
KKE0000778
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Ref
99-1
About Frank Whitford
Dr Frank Whitford was an art historian and critic, and one of Britain's leading experts on 20th-century German and Austrian art. During his varied career, he lectured on the history of art at University College London and Homerton College, Cambridge, wrote several books and served as a newspaper art critic. From 1983 onwards he was a senior member of Wolfson ... Read more
Reviews for Egon Schiele
'Short, pithy, telling biography ... as good and thorough an introduction to the contradictions and complexities of Schiele's art, life and times as could be hoped for ' - Apollo