Schiele - Couverture souple

Short, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714833932 ISBN 13 : 9780714833934

Editeur : Phaidon, 1998

Synopsis

Egon Schiele was born in Vienna in 1890, growing up in the same milieu that nurtured the theories of Freud. Showing a precocious talent as a child, he developed a distinctive personal style that matched his anguished obsession which sex, life and death. His nudes and self-portraits, with their unflinching honesty, are among the most intense and powerful portrayales of sexual feeling in Western art. Although he died young he produced a body of painting, watercolors and drawings that rank him among the most original artist of the early twentieth century, and an important forerunner of the expressionism 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 finest work in all media.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phaidon
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714833932
• ISBN 13: 9780714833934
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible