The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka

Agnes Husslein-Arco, Jane Kallir, Alfred Weidinger, o.a.

Belvedere, Vienna & Prestel, 2015

49,95

Female portraits and nudes, mothers & children, and couples by the three most outstanding painters of Viennese modernism. In the early 20th century, the traditional relationship between the sexes was challenged by a number of social, economic, and philosophical changes. It was above all the incipient development towards gender equity that provoked vehement counter-arguments. On the other hand, sexual liberation can be seen as a common goal of men and women, since they both sought to escape the restrictive moral taboos of the 19th century. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka –then the three most outstanding painters of Viennese modernism– approached the subject matter generally referred to as the “woman question” from slightly different, albeit overlapping perspectives. The book presents an in-depth exploration of
these differences and similarities.

Artikelnummer: 12696 Categorie:

ISBN: 978-3791354941

240 pagina's, hardcover, Engels