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Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

Art HistoryDrawing InstructionArt & Popular Culture

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ISBN10: 1032220317
ISBN13: 9781032220314
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 2 2022
Pages: 288
Language: English

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.

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