| ISBN13: | 9781032229300 |
| ISBN10: | 1032229306 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 300 pages |
| Size: | 246x174 mm |
| Weight: | 553 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 82 Illustrations, black & white; 82 Halftones, black & white |
| 685 |
Arts in general
Painting, graphics
History of Europe
Art history in general
19th century and first half of 20th century
Other braches of fine arts
Cultural studies
Further readings in politics
Arts in general (charity campaign)
Painting, graphics (charity campaign)
History of Europe (charity campaign)
Art history in general (charity campaign)
19th century and first half of 20th century (charity campaign)
Other braches of fine arts (charity campaign)
Cultural studies (charity campaign)
Further readings in politics (charity campaign)
Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration
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Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele?s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist?s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete.
Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele?s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist?s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete.
Claude Cernuschi analyzes each comparison on a case-by-case basis, primarily because the interpretation of cartoons and caricatures is highly contingent on their specific historical and cultural context. Although this connection has gone unnoticed in the literature, in retrospect, this correlation makes perfect sense. Not only was Schiele?s artistic production frequently compared to caricature (and derided for being ?grotesque?), but Expressionism and caricature are natural allies. One may belong to ?high? art and the other to ?popular? culture, yet both presuppose similar assumptions and deploy a similar rhetorical position: namely, that the exaggeration of human physiognomy allows deeper psychological ?truths? to emerge.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, popular culture, and politics.
