Book Description About the Author Reinhard Steiner (born 1950) is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Stuttgart. His particular areas of interest and expertise include late medieval and Renaissance art as well as the art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Read more Customers Review: A fair representation of the artist’s evolution, starting with evidence of his great artistic talent in conventional portraits and ending with cartoonish expressions of unconscious forces with his subjects. His later art fulfilled the purpose of art: to shock. Walking the fuzzy line of pornography was sanctioned by the fashionable interest displayed by the narcissistic elite of 1900 Vienna in the “unconscious” and Sigmund Freud. Unlike portraits of revoltingly ugly naked fat old men favored by his contemporary, Julian Freud, Shiele’s work escapes nausea with his fascinating innovative style of draftsmanship. Some of his fine landscapes are included.
great pirce e for a very interesting intro to Schiele
Excellent introduction to Schiele and his work.
A fine primer.
good
As it gives you all the information you need, the colour of the pictures are good, after having seen a film about Schiele it will help me to remember different aspects about him. Very pleased with it and happy that I found it on Amazon com.Thank you.UKR
Gorgeous.
In Shiele’s hands is a confident line and an uncensored, cooly critical appraising eye. His self portraits, angular, emaciated, naked place the viewer in the position of voyeur and Schiele the exhibitionist. His rendering of hands are boney, expressive, at times grasping with their black outlines across the body.His female nudes are unforgiving, distorted, fleshy, grotesque and, at times, with a dismemberment that is confronting. His painting, The Embrace, so resembles the work of the much later, Lucien Freud that I would not be surprised if Schiele was one of Freud’s artistic influences.This book includes Schiele’s early works, the influence of Klimt on his work, his later abstractions and landscapes. The text provides a fascinating insight into this complex artist. |
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