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Egon Schiele (1890–1918) is considered to be one of the pioneers of Austrian modernism together with Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. Coinciding with the start of the commemoration of the centenary of his death, this volume will approach Schiele’s fascinating works from a new perspective and will also introduce a paradigm change in the interpretation of his oeuvre.

Inspiration from Schiele’s private circumstances as well as from the art of antiquity, the Byzantine period and even the age of the Baroque will help to provide the key to understanding Schiele’s pictorial allegories, which have remained enigmatic to this day. In the light of the latest Schiele research the artist will no longer be presented as the disturbingly penetrating portraitist of existential loneliness, but at the same time also as a champion of lofty ethics and passionate spirituality.

 - New approaches to the interpretation of Schiele's allegorically encoded works
 -  A unique overview of Schiele's development as a graphic artist and watercolourist
 -  To mark the centenary of Schiele's death in 2018: with works from the Albertina, complited by prestigious loans

In this comprehensive and lavish volume, a renowned authority on Egon Schiele focuses on the artist’s images of women, offering new and revelatory perspectives.

During his brief yet prolific career, Egon Schiele created hundreds of drawings, watercolours, and oil paintings of the women in his life. His work is generally regarded as expressionistic, emotional, intense, autobiographical, and highly sexual. In this elegant and beautifully illustrated book, Jane Kallir examines Schiele’s depictions of women to argue that there is more to these images than we realize.

Drawing from the latest research as well as her own exhaustive familiarity with Schiele’s entire oeuvre, Kallir explores four distinct periods, each characterized by a single figure or series of women: the artist’s mother and sisters; the often anonymous models of the "breakthrough" years, 1910–11; his lover, Wally Neuzil; and his wife, Edith, and her sister, Adele.

Weaving together historical context, biographical information, and observations of the works, Kallir demonstrates how these women relate not only to Schiele’s development but to the larger issue of feminine representation.

Kallir offers a panoply of significant insights into a central aspect of the artist’s achievement, which has never before been the subject of a focused study. Schiele’s fans will treasure this beautiful and groundbreaking addition to the literature on this important artist.

Twisted Brilliance. The 1909–1918 catalogue of Egon Schiele, as never seen before

A century after his death, Egon Schiele continues to stun with his contorted lines, distorted bodies, and eroticism. This XXL-sized book features the complete catalogue of his paintings from 1909–1918. Nearly 600 illustrations are presented, many of them newly photographed, alongside expert insights and Schiele’s personal writings in this decisive monograph.

After Egon Schiele (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a passionate provocateur, this didn’t prove to be too big a challenge.

His haggard, overstretched figures, drastic depiction of sexuality, and self-portraits in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions bordering between brilliance and madness, had none of the decorative quality of Klimt's hymns of love, sexuality, and yearning devotion. Instead, Schiele’s work spoke of a brutal honesty, one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society.

Although his works were later defamed as “degenerate” and for a time were almost forgotten altogether, they influenced generations of artists – from Günter Brus and Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin. Today, his then-misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market.

Presented in a voluminous format that captures all of the intensity and emotional truth of his work, Egon Schiele. All paintings from 1909-1918 feature 221 paintings and 146 drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele’s life. With many pieces newly photographed for this edition, these works are paired with excerpts from his countless writings and poems, as well as essays introducing his life and oeuvre, to situate the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and trace his extraordinary legacy.

About the author:

Tobias G. Natter is an internationally acknowledged expert on art in “Vienna around 1900.” For many years he worked at the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, latterly as head curator. He also worked as guest curator at the Tate Liverpool, the Neue Galerie New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Schirn in Frankfurt am Main, and the Jewish Museum in Vienna. From 2006 to 2011, he directed the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz, and from 2011 to 2013 was director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. In 2014 he founded Natter Fine Arts, which specializes in assessing works of art and developing exhibition concepts. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings, Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 and Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909–1918.

Featuring over 140 masterpieces, this new book draws on the unsurpassed Schiele collection of Vienna’s Leopold Museum

This book gathers some 140 paintings, watercolors and drawings by Egon Schiele from the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which famously possesses the world’s most comprehensive and eminent collection of works by this most beloved of modern artists. It covers all periods of Schiele’s oeuvre, with examples of his earliest creations, his renowned Expressionist period and the work created shortly before his untimely death. Among the classic Schiele paintings housed in the collection are the Seated Male Nude (a self-portrait) of 1910 and The Hermits of 1912 (probably depicting Schiele with Gustav Klimt). Cityscapes constitute another emphasis in Schiele’s oeuvre as well as landscapes including Houses by the Sea. Throughout the book, numerous full-page illustrations afford exceptional insight into Schiele’s genius for line and colour.

Essays by Elisabeth Leopold, Rudolf Leopold, Franz Smola and Birgit Summerauer outline the milieu and career of this provocative artist but also highlight Schiele’s place among the great masters of the 20th century.

Austrian painter Egon Schiele was a gifted artist, mentored by the great Gustav Klimt. 

Inspired by the human form, he is best known for his figurative works, particularly of women, with their defiantly confrontational air and their bold contortions. Schiele’s nudes are shockingly direct in the way they face us: frank, unabashed and defiant in their gaze. To be as resolutely transgressive as Schiele is an artistic achievement in itself. 

Egon Schiele Masterpieces of Art features a fascinating introduction to the life and art of this talented artist, as well as showcasing his key portraits, nudes, landscapes and still lifes in all their glory.

Catalogue on the sensational exhibition featuring about 40 of El Greco’s works

The sensational oeuvre of El Greco (1541-1614) was first introduced to a broader German audience in 1910 through Julius Meier-Graefe’s journal, The Spanish Journey. Numerous artists subsequently caught “Greco fever” when they first saw larger groups of his works in exhibitions in Munich in 1911 and Düsseldorf in 1912. Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Oppenheimer, Ludwig Meidner, and especially members of the Blaue Reiter - August Macke, Franz Marc, Albert Bloch, and others - recognized in El Greco a father figure for the Modernist movement, mentioning him in the same breath as Paul Cézanne.

This volume presents a general selection of over forty paintings by El Greco from the most famous museums around the world. At the same time, the young artists’ exploration of the paintings and visual spheres of the exceptional Spanish painter are discussed, opening up a fascinating view of the battle for Modernism.

Although Emil Nolde is famous for his dramatic ocean views and colorful flower gardens, his love of the fantastical and grotesque has received less attention to date. Yet, it is clear from his autobiography and many letters that they had a significant impact on his artistic work. Besides his first oil painting, the Bergriesen (Mountain giants, 1895/96), his alpine postcards from before 1900 also display his fascination with the imaginary: here, the Swiss mountains appear as bizarre human physiognomies. His turning away from reality in favor of a grotesque, alternative world can be seen throughout his oeuvre, from its beginnings, to the Grotesken (1905) and watercolors from 1918/1919, to the years when he was forbidden to practice his profession under the Nazis.

The exhibition catalogue, which presents works of art never before shown, is also the first to discover a fascinating side of the great painter and water colorist.Exhibition: 30.4.-9.7.2017, Internationale Tage Ingelheim at Museum Wiesbaden; 23.7.-15.10.2017, Buchheim Museum der Phantasie, Bernried am Starnberger See

In the early 1990s Andy Goldsworthy was invited to propose a project for Cumbria, a region of outstanding natural beauty where the landscape has been moulded for centuries by agriculture and in particular by sheep-farming. His response was to repair or rebuild a swathe of Cumbrian sheepfolds – with the intention that, wherever possible the folds would still be accessible to sheep.

Among the sculptures are slate works and balanced stones embedded in walls and a series of sixteen folds each containing a massive boulder rolled down from the nearby hillside. By 2006 over forty structures had been completed: it is this extraordinary project that forms the core of Enclosure.

This impressive volume is testament to Goldsworthy's lifelong interest in the land, its history and its inhabitants.

Andy Goldsworthy, the internationally renowned sculptor, was born in Cheshire in 1956. There are regular exhibitions of his work in Britain, France, The United States and elsewhere. Although he travels all over the world to carry out his commissions, the landscape around his home in south-west Scotland, remains at the heart of his work.

Ервін Блюменфельд (1897–1969) народився в єврейській родині в Берліні. У 1941 році він покинув Європу та переїхав до Сполучених Штатів, де через п'ять років отримав громадянство. Протягом сорокових і п'ятдесятих років він був одним із найпопулярніших фешн-фотографів у світі. Однак більшість людей не знайомі з ранньою творчістю художника: часто їдко-гумористичними дадаїстськими монтажами, які він створював між 1916 і 1933 роками.

Ця книга Гелен Адкінс, відомої експертки з берлінського дадаїстичного руху, є першою, яка пропонує глибоке дослідження цих ранніх робіт. Блюменфельд не мав наміру показувати їх публічно – вони були особистими подарунками його друзям і знайомим або вкладеними в любовні листи до його нареченої. Приблизно сто робіт, включаючи багато з тих, що раніше не публікувалися та які автор виявив у сімейних архівах художника та в інших державних і приватних колекціях, будуть розглянуті в контексті життя, фотографій, малюнків та літературних творів Блюменфельда.

M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents.

From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly influenced Escher's further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934 the artist lived and worked in Italy. Afterwards, Escher spent two years in Switzerland and five in Brussels before finally moving back to Barn in Holland, where he died in 1972.

M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. The resulting dimensional and perspectival illusions bring us into confrontation with the limitations of our sensory perception.

As two of the most acclaimed fantasy artists working today, Boris and Julie have produced art for album covers, trading cards, posters and calendars for (in Boris' case) 30 years – as well as having 15 books of their work published under the Paper Tiger imprint.

During their careers Boris and Julie have become most famous for their paintings of the female form and this book is a collection of their greatest fantasy women.

The Fabulous Fantasy Women of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell contains approximately 100 illustrations arranged thematically; these are divided into areas such as Amazonian women, Mermaids and Fighting women.

Nigel Suckling writes the introduction, the narrative accompanying the paintings and additional captions for many of the pieces

Painter Jack Vettriano emerged from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields – unknown and untutored – and has seen his canvases hung in the Royal Scottish Academy. His first exhibition sold out, then the second. He sent the maximum, three paintings, to the Royal Academy summer show in Piccadilly; all three were hung. Alongside over forty Vettriano paintings are stories, poems, dialogue from plays, and other fine examples of Scottish writing.

W Gordon Smith, playwright and art critic, has woven an anthology of new and old writing round the painter’s images, complementing them, matching their moods, extending the lives of his characters beyond their frozen moments on canvas. Some of Scotland’s most accomplished writers have accepted the challenge to put their imagination into free fall and, by interpreting Vettriano’s paintings in such diverse ways, plunder some of their mysteries and perhaps go some way towards explaining their unique appeal.

Alongside 40 Vettriano paintings are stories, poems, dialogue from plays, an other fine examples of Scottish writing. Smith has woven an anthology of new and old writing round the painter’s images, complementing and extending them.

About the Author:

Jack Vettriano is entirely self-taught. A Scotsman of Italian descent, he left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer working down the Fife coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. His first solo exhibition in Edinburgh was a sell-out and since then he has had solo exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and New York. Over the last twenty years, interest in Vettriano’s work has grown consistently. Vettriano’s best known painting, The Singing Butler, was sold at Sotheby’s for close to £750,000. He was awarded an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts. In 2013, a major twenty year Retrospective exhibition of Vettriano’s work was staged at Kelvingrove art Gallery and Musuem in Glasgow. He lives in Edinburgh.

Ботеро здобув міжнародну популярність, вловлюючи химерність життя, малюючи масивні, а часом і комічні фігури. Розширеність його предметів надає фігурам абстрактного, нереального і навіть гротескного виміру. Дослідження краси й жаху, монументальні постаті Ботеро можуть бути чуттєвими, і багато з них сповнені болем і смутком.

Ця монографія представляє картини, створені за останні тридцять років і створені з використанням його власної унікальної мови, яка є відмінною рисою його творчості та надзвичайного поєднання латиноамериканської традиції та європейського живопису.

Перше велике дослідження художниці Кетрін Бредфорд, відомої своїми повністю особистими картинами плавців, купальщиків та супергероїв.

Відома своєю яскравою палітрою та ексцентричними композиціями, Кетрін Бредфорд стала відомою пізно в житті, коли її унікальний стиль живопису нарешті отримав схвалення критиків у світі мистецтва. Картини художниці населені різноманітними персонажами — від плавців до супергероїнь і, останнім часом, матерів — які є опорою та пов'язують її творчість з різними часами та засобами масової інформації. Її постаті, які часто кидають виклик суспільним очікуванням щодо жінок (та іншим гендерним нормам), таким чином служать сурогатами дорослішання матері, художниці та лесбійки на рубежі двадцять першого століття. Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford, що містить понад двадцять років її творчості, розглядає численні теми художниці, її постійне дослідження різних живописних стилів та її захоплення кольором протягом усього життя.

Про автора:

Хайме ДеСімон — куратор сучасного мистецтва Роберта та Елізабет Нанович у Портлендському музеї мистецтв у штаті Мен. Ненсі Прінсенталь — арт-райтерка з Нью-Йорка.

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Погортати книгу Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford

A celebration of the enormously popular Italian painter, sculptor and interior decorator

Piero Fornasetti established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all his own – a style based on illusionism, architectural perspectives and a host of personal leitmotifs, such as the sun, playing cards and fishes, from which he spun seemingly endless variations. 'He makes objects speak' said Gio Ponti, his friend and longtime collaborator.

Designers and collectors today celebrate his use of allusion, unsettling images and striking juxtaposition to create unique, whimsical objects. Fornasetti's masterpieces shock, delight and inspire.