Between Ruin and Renewal: Egon Schiele's Landscapes - Hardcover

Kimberly A. Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300097484 ISBN 13: 9780300097481

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890--1918) is renowned for his intensely confrontational portraits, self-portraits, erotic images, and allegories. What is less well known today is that Schiele was also a talented and prolific landscape painter. These fascinating landscapes, however, are now gaining the attention of scholars and the art world. Indeed, Landscape at Krumau (1916) by Schiele recently sold at auction in London for about $20 million. In this beautifully illustrated and engaging book, Kimberly A. Smith provides the first full examination of Schiele's landscapes and townscapes, offering a new approach to and insights into the artist's work and motivations. Diverging from the conventional interpretation that Schiele's paintings are revelations of the artist's psychology and emotional experience, Smith focuses instead on how his landscapes relate to the political, social, and historical conditions in early-twentieth-century Austria. As Smith argues, Schiele's extraordinary landscape paintings are marked by a dialectic of resignation and renewal and convey the character of Viennese modernism itself.

About this title

About the Author:

Kimberly A. Smith is assistant professor in the Art Department at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Review:

"A readable and very important contribution to the immense Schiele bibliography. . . . Excellent color illustrations and bibliography. Highly recommended." -- Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300097484
• ISBN 13: 9780300097481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232