Author: WHITFORD, FRANK; SCHIELE, EGON (1890-1918)
Title: Egon Schiele / Frank Whitford
Description: London : Thames and Hudson 1981. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description; 215p : ill(some col.). facsims. ports (some col.) ; 21cm (pbk). Notes; Bibliography: p205-207. - Includes index. Summary; Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during the last years of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family. 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. He was only twenty-eight when he died. yet he left behind him a body of work that sustains a huge public reputation--and a myth. This book sets out to examine both. 151 illus. 20 in color. Subjects; Schiele. Egon (Austrian painter. 1890-1918). Schiele. Egon 1890-1918 — Studies. Art. Austrian — 20th century. Painters. Austrian — 20th century — Biography. Artists. 20th Century. Austria. paintings - Austrian - Schiele. Egon — critical studies. AUSTRIAN PAINTING. Austrian paintings — Schiele. Egon — 1890-1918 — Biographies. Dates covered: 1890-1918. Individual artists ; Expressionism. Austria ; c 1800 to c 1900 ; 20th century. ART / Individual Artists / General. ART / History / General. Genre; Biography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0500201838. Weight in Kg appr.:

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