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About the book：

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890 1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the twentieth century.

Mentored by Gustav Klimt, Schiele dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before developing his own much more gritty and confront...

About the book：

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890 1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the twentieth century.

Mentored by Gustav Klimt, Schiele dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before developing his own much more gritty and confrontational aesthetic of sharp lines, lurid shades, and mannered, elongated figures. His prolific portraits and self-portraits stunned the Viennese establishment with an unprecedented psychological and sexual intensity, favoring erotic, exposing, or unsettling poses in which he or his sitters cower on the floor, languish with legs akimbo, glower at the viewer, and thrust their genitalia into the foreground. His models are at times skeletal and sickly, at others strong and sensual.

Many contemporaries found Schiele s work to be not only ugly but morally objectionable, and in 1912, the artist was briefly imprisoned for obscenity. Today, his oeuvre is celebrated for its revolutionary approach to the human figure and for its direct and particularly fervent, almost furious, brand of draughtsmanship. This book presents key Schiele works to introduce his short but urgent career and his profound contribution to the development of modern art, which reaches right through to such contemporary talents as Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville.

书籍简介：

埃贡·席勒（Egon Schiele，1890-1918）的绘画风格，充满了扭曲的形象和对传统审美的蔑视，是奥地利表现主义的先驱，也是二十世纪至令人吃惊的肖像画家之一。

在古斯塔夫•克里姆特（Gustav Klimt）的指导下，席勒涉足了一种闪闪发光的新艺术风格，然后开发出更加激进的对抗美学，包括锋利的线条，耸人听闻的色调，以及矫揉造作的细长人物。他多姿多彩的肖像画和自拍肖像以前所未及的心理强度震惊了维也纳人。偏爱色情，暴露或不安的姿势，他或他的保姆在地板上蜷缩着，双腿叉腰，对观众怒目而视。他的模特有时骨瘦如柴，体弱多病，有时又强壮又性感。

许多同时代人觉得席勒的作品不仅丑陋，而且在道德上令人反感，1912年，这位艺术家还因淫岁而被短暂监禁。现在，他的作品却因其对人物形象的革命性的处理方式，以及其直接的、特别热烈的、几乎是愤怒的绘图技巧而闻名。

这本书介绍了席勒的主要作品，讲述了他短暂而紧凑的职业生涯，以及他对现代艺术发展的深刻贡献，这些成就直接影响到当代的特蕾西·埃敏和詹妮·萨维尔。

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About the series（Basic Art Series 2.0）：

Basic Art was born back in 1985 with the very first original TASCHEN publication: Picasso. Since then, the series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published, offering succinct slimline artist introductions across 200 titles, translated into some 20 languages.

For its 30th anniversary, we have given this much-loved series a makeover: Basic Art 2.0, freshly designed, revised, and hardcover bound, but still with the same rock-bottom price tag!

系列简介：

1985年， Basic art系列的首部著作《毕加索》问世，开启了德国TASCHEN出版公司的艺术出版历程。此后的30余年中， Basic art系列始终坚持以简洁、精练的笔法勾勒艺术家们的世界，内容不断充裕，培养了众多忠实读者，成为多年居销量榜首的经典艺术书系。

时至今日，此系列已出版图书近200种，更有多达20种的各国语言版本在世界范围内发行，具有极高的口碑和影响力。

Reinhard Steiner is professor of art history at the University of Stuttgart. His particular areas of interest and expertis incude late medieval and Renaissance art as well as the art of the 10 th and 20th centuries

赖因哈德·施泰纳，德国司徒加特大学艺术史教授，他个人感兴趣及擅长的领域包括：中世纪晚期、文艺复兴时期以及10世纪和20世纪的艺术。