Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Rüdiger Görner was professor of German with comparative literature at Queen Mary University of London. The founder of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and the founding director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, his books include biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Stefan Zweig.
<p>‘[A] rich literary study of a major cultural figure’<br />
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- Art History,
<p>‘Rüdiger Görner is a thorough expert in all things Kokoschka, and his work is entertaining as it is knowledgeable.’<br />
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- New Art Examiner,
<p>‘Kokoschka was a leading figure in the Central European expressionist movement. . . . Gӧrner presents a serviceable narrative that captures the ‘inner tension, excitement and drama’ of Kokoschka’s career.’</p>
- Choice,
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was an artist of his time, but he also stood out among his peers - not just because of his towering physical height but for his artistic range. Using both brush and pen to work against the tide, he wrote plays and stories as well as essays on art and politics, playing a major role in the development of twentieth-century European art.
A rebel of the art world, he was used to controversy, and Rüdiger Görner's accomplished biography traces the dark, unsettling aspects of Kokoschka's life alongside his more celebrated achievements: from the eerie doll he had made in the image of a former lover to the unconventional art school he founded in the aftermath of the Second Word War.
Taking us from his birthplace of Pöchlarn across Europe and to the United Kingdom, where he became a naturalised British citizen in 1947, this first English-language biography does more than show Kokoschka as a maverick artist; it is the definitive interpretation of an extraordinary life.
Preface to the Paperback Edition // xi
Preface to the English Edition // xiii
Foundations, or the Journey to an Achievement of the Century // 1
1: The Journey // 11
2: Determination and Confusion // 30
3: Wartime Art // 67
4: Pre-Schooling Vision // 101
5: Exile in England // 162
6: The Portrait as a Form of Representation // 195
7: Portrait of the Older Artist as Educator, or Schools of Seeing // 238
Notes // 307
Bibliography // 334
Acknowledgements: A Word of Thanks // 351
‘This is a revelatory new biography of Oskar Kokoschka. Rüdiger Görner tells the story of the life and loves of this unique Central European painter and man of letters as he interacted with writers, musicians and artists in is milieu as well as many important political leaders. Arguably full of inner contradictions, Kokoschka remains a hugely significant figure whose relevance is undiminished indeed for these times.’
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Rüdiger Görner was professor of German with comparative literature at Queen Mary University of London. The founder of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and the founding director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, his books include biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Stefan Zweig.