'Sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space...' - these, according to Salvador Dali, are the 'great vital constants' that make up the vocabulary of the language of the unconscious - the language of the Surrealist painters. Dealing with the fundamentals of human existen[...]
The Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a major figure in the birth of modern art. His uncompromising style of expression gave form to the anxieties and insecurities that beset Western culture at the turn of the century. In this beautifully illustrated book Simon Wilson discusses Schiele's[...]
Intended for college students and museum visitors, this volume defines terms, whether theme, movement, medium or practice, and complements the entries by over a hundred illustrations.[...]