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The Changing Image of Beethoven
In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.
Egon Schiele's Portraits
Egon 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 simultaneously 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. As a seer into the souls of his si...
In Passionate Pursuit a Memoir
A series of fortuitous experiences at Interlochen's National Music Camp; Barnard College; the University of California, Berkeley; and Columbia University later leads to what would ultimately be a turning point both in her life as well as in Schiele scholarship: the discovery, half a century after Schiele's incarceration in a provincial Austrian jail, of the actual cell in which he had been imprisoned."--BOOK JACKET.
Schiele in Prison
The account of Austrian artist (1890-1918) Egon Schiele's arrest and 24-day imprisonment including his diary and stark drawings created during his time in a provincial jail in April of 1912.
In Passionate Pursuit
Overflowing with passion for her work as a scholar and teacher, Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini reminisces through six decades as an unconventional art historian in this illustrated memoir. The author of award-winning books on Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Ludwig van Beethoven, Comini draws on her sixty years of daily journals, sharing research-related anecdotes as she reflects on the formation and flowering of her distinguished career. Beginning with her colorful background as a refugee from Franco's Spain, then Mussolini's Italy, she describes her music-loving family's sometimes humorous, sometimes painfu...
Schiele in Prison
The account of Austrian artist (1890-1918) Egon Schiele's arrest and 24-day imprisonment including his diary and stark drawings created during his time in a provincial jail in April of 1912.
Paula Modersohn-Becker
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The Fantastic Art of Vienna
An investigation of the historic Viennese milieu of plural dualities in which artists, musicians, writers, and scientists worked in the city not only of dreams but of nightmares.
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