Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka · 2019
Where to buy
Amazon’s price changes daily, so the most accurate place to see it is there, at the moment you buy.
View on AmazonThis is an affiliate link: if you buy through it, the site earns a small commission at no extra cost to you, which helps us bring quality content and maintain the site. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
About the book
Oskar Kokoschka (1886?1980) is, along with Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso, one of a generation of artists who retained their allegiance to figurative painting after the Second World War, even as abstract art was consolidating its predominance. It is also thanks to them that non-representational painting and figurative art can now be practised side by side without partisan feuding. Artists of the present day acknowledge their debt to Kokoschka in particular.0The retrospective traces the motifs and motivations of a painter who felt at home in no fewer than five countries. It brings together 100 paintings and an equal number of works on paper, photographs and letters from all phases of his career. Two impressive triptychs, each around eight metres wide and two metres high ? ?The Prometheus Triptych± (1950, Courtauld Gallery, London) and ?Thermopylae± (1954, University of Hamburg) ? are the high point of Kokoschka?s mature oeuvre, and of this retrospective. The two works have only been shown together once before, at the Tate in 1962.00Exhibition: Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland (14.12.2018 - 10.03.2019).
Book details
- Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, Klaus Kehrer
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9783868288995
Data source: Wikidata
More by Oskar Kokoschka
