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Title: Egon Schiele 1890-1918 by Reinhard Steiner, Taschen ISBN: 3-8228-6327-0 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Scholarly and colorful.
Comment: This book by Reinhard Steiner gives a very intellectual treatment to the art of Egon Schiele. From pages 9 to 11, Nietzsche is quoted as a guide to the self, and for the first quote, Steiner must be translating from the German himself, for the footnote is not to an English version of Nietzsche's work. Could this be familiar?
It is a theatre of the self which is in dangerous proximity to Friedrich Nietzsche's aphoristic description (in 1888) of the modern artist: "The modern artist, physiologically close kin to the hysteric, bears the signs of hysteria in his very character too . . . The absurd excitability of his constitution, which makes a crisis of every experience and drags drama into the merest chances of life, renders him utterly unpredictable: he is no longer one person, but at most a gathering of persons, and now this one, now that will be conspicuous amongst them, with unabashed confidence. . . ." (pp. 9-10).
Almost everything in the book is reproduced in color, but the paintings might not please everyone. Consider them stark.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good intro to a disturbing artist
Comment: As a quick study of/introduction to Egon Schiele, this book is great. Timeline, bio, an examination of influences and early works are included, but the highlights are Schiele's mature paintings. His self-portraits make him look like a concentration camp internee. Beautiful, scary stuff.
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Title: Schiele Drawings : 44 Works by Egon Schiele ISBN: 0486281507 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 14 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors by Jane Kallir, Ivan Vartanian ISBN: 0500511160 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Amedo Modigliani 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing (Basic Art) by Doris Autkrystof, Doris Krystof, Taschen America ISBN: 382286319X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion (Pegasus Library) by Klaus Albrecht Schroeder, Egon Schiele ISBN: 379132229X Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 (Basic Art) by Gilles Neret, Giles Neret ISBN: 382285980X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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