Egon Schiele's portraits /

"The meaning of portraiture in the egocentric and erotic culture of Vienna at the end of the Hapsburg Empire frames Alessandra Comini's definitive, lavishly illustrated study of the art of Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Comini analyzes Schiele's work in the context of Viennese Expressionis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Comini, Alessandra
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1974.
Series:California studies in the history of art ; 17.
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Table of Contents:
  • Expressionist shift from facade to psyche
  • 1890-1909: Childhood and student years
  • 1909-1910: Toward artistic independence
  • 1910: THe radical portraits and self-portraits: into the void
  • 1910-1914: Isolation and thematic absorption in self
  • 1912-1914: Major portrait commissions
  • 1914-1916: Emergence from isolation and new directions in style
  • 1917-1918: Schiele's later portraits: return from the void