{"product_id":"9783836581257","title":"Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 45th Ed.","description":"After \u003cb\u003eEgon Schiele\u003c\/b\u003e (1890–1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model \u003cb\u003eGustav Klimt\u003c\/b\u003e, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the \u003cb\u003eannals of modernity\u003c\/b\u003e before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a \u003cb\u003epassionate provocateur\u003c\/b\u003e, this didn’t prove to be too big a challenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His \u003cb\u003ehaggard, overstretched figures\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eextreme depiction of sexuality\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eself-portraits,\u003c\/b\u003e in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions \u003cb\u003ebordering between brilliance and madness\u003c\/b\u003e, had none of the decorative quality of Klimt’s hymns of love, sexuality and yearning devotion. Instead, Schiele’s work spoke of a \u003cb\u003ebrutal honesty\u003c\/b\u003e, one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although his works were later defamed as “degenerate” and for a time were almost forgotten altogether, they \u003cb\u003einfluenced generations of artists\u003c\/b\u003e—from \u003cb\u003eGünter Brus\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eFrancis Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e to \u003cb\u003eTracey Emin\u003c\/b\u003e. Today, his then misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This monograph features \u003cb\u003ethe paintings\u003c\/b\u003e and\u003cb\u003e drawings\u003c\/b\u003e that \u003cb\u003eretrace the fertile last decade of Schiele’s life\u003c\/b\u003e. These works are accompanied by essays introducing his life and oeuvre, situating the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and charting his extraordinary legacy.","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370309292093,"sku":"9783836581257","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9783836581257_p0.jpg?v=1771564427","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9783836581257","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}