Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909–1918

Autor: Anglicky2017Taschen

V této objemné knize ve formátu XXL prozkoumáme kompletní katalog obrazů rakuského umělce Egona Schieleho (1890-1918) z jeho nejinovativnějšího a nejplodnějšího desetiletí v letech 1909 až 1918. Zhruba 600 vydaných vyobrazení odhaluje, jak se umělec díval na stylistickou svobodu, opustil klasickou figuraci pro zkreslenou a přehnanou tělesnost, která poskytla emoční a sexuální pravdu.

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ISBN: 9783836546126  Jazyk: Anglicky  Rok:   EAN: 9783836546126  Hmotnost: 4.90 kg  Vazba: vázaná  Počet stran: 612  Rozměr: 290x395 mm  Nakladatel: Taschen
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Detail knihy - Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909–1918, Tobias G. Natter

Over the course of his short life, Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918) blazed a turbulent Expressionist trail. A child prodigy, young rebel, and chronic provocateur, he caused uproar among the establishment with his contorted lines, distorted bodies, and explicit eroticism and continues to startle to this day with his unflinching images of himself and his nude subjects.

In this expansive XXL-format book, we survey the complete catalogue of Schiele paintings from his most innovative and prolific decade between 1909 and 1918. The near 600 featured works reveal how the artist reveled in stylistic freedom and shock, abandoning classical figuration for a distorted and exaggerated physicality that rendered emotional and sexual truth. His subjects are elongated, angular, and twisted. With protruding ribs, contorted limbs, and sickly skin, the body becomes a locus of anguish. The only reprieve is the promise of sex. Like no other early 20th-century artist, Schiele laid genitalia bare, bringing some of the most candid renderings of the vagina in Western art history, as well as scenes of masturbation and lesbian sex.