ISBN10: 0500301212, ISBN13: 9780500301210, [publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, London] Softcover Paperback. Egon Schiele has a reputation as a bad boy of art.Rejected by his family and hounded by a scandalized society for his interest in young girls, he laced his drawings and paintings with fierce expressions of sexuality and death.This profusely illustrated book surveys Schiele's extraordinary life, and delves into both the controversial sexual themes and neglected aspects of his art, notably his formal experiments and his later expressionist portraits and allegorical paintings - works that reveal much about the importance of his brief career, cut tragically short by his death at the age of only twenty-eight. 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
[Stevenage, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0500301212, ISBN13: 9780500301210, [publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, London] Softcover Paperback. Egon Schiele has a reputation as a bad boy of art.Rejected by his family and hounded by a scandalized society for his interest in young girls, he laced his drawings and paintings with fierce expressions of sexuality and death.This profusely illustrated book surveys Schiele's extraordinary life, and delves into both the controversial sexual themes and neglected aspects of his art, notably his formal experiments and his later expressionist portraits and allegorical paintings - works that reveal much about the importance of his brief career, cut tragically short by his death at the age of only twenty-eight. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2007]
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