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Kokoschka Oskar
Kokoschka (Great Modern Masters)
 List Price: Price: $49.95 DescriptionOne of a series of monographs on great 20th-century artists, this title is concerned with Oskar Kokoschka, a major figure in the Expresionist movement. After studying in Vienna, where he was strongly influenced by Art Nouveau, he painted the first of his Expressionist portraits, characterized by restless draughtsmanship and broken patterns of colour. Seriously wounded in World War I, Kokoschka produced little work until 1924 when he began a series of journeys through Europe to refresh his creative spirit. During this period he embarked on a number of colour experiments, particularly in landscape paintings. Condemned as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime, his paintings in public collections were confiscated, and Kokoschka subsequently moved to London, and then to Switzerland. His late paintings retain the Expressionist qualities of his best mature work, and their increasing abstraction reveals a kinship to Abstract Expressionism. This book presents 74 of Kokoschka's works in an accessible text, fully documenting his artistic achievement.
Oskar Kokoschka
 List Price: Price: $307.28 DescriptionKokoschka's unique contribution to the history of twentieth century art is becoming ever more apparent. This monograph contains a broad selection of Kokoschka's finest paintings, in all genres and from all periods of the artist's remarkably long and productive career, including his lesser known but no less significant later works.Each of the beautifully reproduced plates in the volume is accompanied by an informative commentary, indicating the place of the work in Kokoschka's development and elucidating its content. Individual essays by experts discuss each phase of the artist's career.
Kokoschka and Alma Mahler: Testimony to a Passionate Relationship (Pegasus Library)
 List Price: Price: $36.63 DescriptionThis text explores the passionate relationship between Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler. Kokoschka was born in Austria in 1886. He was influenced by the works of Gustav Klimt and medieval artists such as Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Durer, and painted many notable paintings in a distinctive Expressionist style in his early career. However, it was his relationship with Mahler that greatly influenced his work. Kokoschka first met Alma Mahler on 1912, eleven months after the death of her husband. Three days after meeting, Kokoschka proposed to her in a passionate letter and they embarked on a stormy relationship which was to last only three years. The 20 paintings (including the "Bride of the Winds"), 70 drawings and prints (including "Alma Mahler") and 7 fans that bear witness to this relationship are discussed. Previously unpublished material including Alma Mahler's diary from 1912-13 is used to complete the picture of this extraordinary relationship.Kokoschka Oskar News
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