{"product_id":"egon-schiele-the-complete-paintings-1909-1918","title":"Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings 1909–1918","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Tobias G. Natter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Schiele fans, especially those with capacious bookcases, will love it.”—\u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e, London\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Schiele’s daringly explicit drawings are so immaculately reproduced that you could cut them out and frame them.”—\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, London\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of his short life, Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918) blazed a turbulent Expressionist trail. A child prodigy, young rebel, and chronic provocateur, he caused uproar among the establishment with his contorted lines, distorted bodies, and explicit eroticism and continues to startle to this day with his unflinching images of himself and his nude subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this expansive XXL-format book, we survey the complete catalogue of Schiele paintings from his most innovative and prolific decade between 1909 and 1919. The 221 featured works reveal how the artist reveled in stylistic freedom and shock, abandoning classical figuration for a distorted and exaggerated physicality that rendered emotional and sexual truth. His subjects are elongated, angular, and twisted. With protruding ribs, contorted limbs, and sickly skin, the body becomes a locus of anguish. The only reprieve is the promise of sex. Like no other early 20th-century artist, Schiele laid genitalia bare, bringing some of the most candid renderings of the vagina in Western art history, as well as scenes of masturbation and lesbian sex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese startling works are presented alongside biographical details, expert insights, as well as Schiele’s own writings and poems, offering intimate access to the ideas behind his work and his extraordinary legacy through countless 20th-century masters, from Francis Bacon and Otto Muehl to Julian Schnabel, David Bowie, and Tracey Emin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e612 pages\u003cbr\u003eTaschen, 2017\u003cbr\u003e18 x 3 x 12 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9783836546126\u003cbr\u003eArtist Monograph, Painting, Drawing, Portraits, Landscapes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39862326992,"sku":"9783836546126","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Egon-Schiele-The-Complete-Paintings-1909_1918_Tobias-G.-Natter.png?v=1592231830","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/egon-schiele-the-complete-paintings-1909-1918","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}