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"Re/Casting Kokoschka is an interpretive study of Kokoschka's early Expressionist portraiture within the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic crossfire of fin-de-siecle Viennese culture. The text investigates the way Kokoschka, as well as his major patrons - the architect. Adolf Loos and the satirist Karl Kraus - differentiated Expressionism from Art Nouveau (the style practiced by Gustav Klimt). Art Nouveau, it was claimed, was decorative and superficial, while Expressionism, conversely, revealed the "truth" of human emotional states. Klimt's work was decried as deceptive and…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2002Fairleigh Dickinson University Press · 239 pages · 9780838639054
Intellectual lifeCriticism and interpretationKokoschka, oscar, 1886-1980Vienna (austria)Austria, history