{"product_id":"between-ruin-and-renewal-egon-schieles-landscapes-9780300097481","title":"Between Ruin and Renewal: Egon Schiele's Landscapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890--1918) is renowned for his intensely confrontational portraits  self-portraits  erotic images  and allegories. What is less well known today is that Schiele was also a talented and prolific landscape painter. These fascinating landscapes  however  are now gaining the attention of scholars and the art world. Indeed  Landscape at Krumau (1916) by Schiele recently sold at auction in London for about $20 million. In this beautifully illustrated and engaging book  Kimberly A. Smith provides the first full examination of Schieles landscapes and townscapes  offering a new approach to and insights into the artists work and motivations. Diverging from the conventional interpretation that Schieles paintings are revelations of the artists psychology and emotional experience  Smith focuses instead on how his landscapes relate to the political  social  and historical conditions in early-twentieth-century Austria. As Smith argues  Schieles extraordinary landscape paintings are marked by a dialectic of resignation and renewal and convey the character of Viennese modernism itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45274450952245,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300097484","price":238.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300097481.jpg?v=1780495943","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/between-ruin-and-renewal-egon-schieles-landscapes-9780300097481","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}