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Egon Schiele (World of Art)

Egon Schiele (World of Art)

by Frank Whitford (Author)

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    Paperback 1981

    $3.45
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 216
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 21 Apr 1981
ISBN 10: 0500201838
ISBN 13: 9780500201831
Book Overview: A major text on a key figurative painter of the early 20th century and protege of Gustav Klimt

Media Reviews
'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
Author Bio
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 College, Cambridge.