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Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary
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ISBN: 1280876115 9786613717429 0857454595 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character's interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness


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Madness and modernity : mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900
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ISBN: 9781848220201 1848220200 Year: 2009 Publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington Lund Humphries


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Egon Schiele : The Radical Nude (exhibition London, The Courtauld Gallery, 23.10.2014 - 18.01.2015)
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ISBN: 9781907372698 Year: 2014 Publisher: Londen Londen The Courtauld Gallery Paul Holberton Publishing

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Facing the modern : the portrait in Vienna 1900
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ISBN: 9781857095616 1857095618 9781857095463 1857095464 Year: 2013 Publisher: London National Gallery


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Egon Schiele : the paintings
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ISBN: 9783836581257 Year: 2020 Publisher: Köln Taschen

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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, extreme 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.

This monograph features the paintings and drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele's life. 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.


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