{"product_id":"egon-schiele-new-edition-hardcover","title":"Egon Schiele: New Edition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEgon Schiele was a meteor that flashed across the galaxy of Viennese art at the beginning of the last century. Although he lived only twenty-eight years--dying quite suddenly of influenza in 1918 just as World War I came to an end--he left a stunning pictorial oeuvre. Schiele's obsession with sexuality, his own and that of others, made him at once a voyeur and a participant in that sexual imperative which Freud was concurrently plumbing with such unsettling results. The disturbing revelations of Schiele's unmasking portraiture and of the new science of psychology disclosed a collective cultural anxiety during the last years of the crumbling Austrian empire. Schiele was disturbingly dualistic: his provocative explorations of erotica with their startlingly modern sensibilities do not prepare the viewer for the tenderness revealed in his lyrical landscapes and mostly unpeopled town scenes. These emit a haunting loneliness and are related to an obsession with pathos expressed in the artist's melancholy allegories and existential portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254817554655,"sku":"9781632934482","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lwEwl1QMbW9781632934482.webp?v=1787500330","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/egon-schiele-new-edition-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}