Oskar Kokoschka : early portraits from Vienna and Berlin, 1909-1914 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980
Corporate Authors:	Neue Galerie New York, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Other Authors:	Natter, Tobias G. (Tobias Günter)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Neue Galerie ; [2002]
Subjects:	Kokoschka, Oskar, > 1886-1980 > Exhibitions. Kokoschka, Oskar, > 1886-1980 > Criticism and interpretation. Portrait painting, Austrian > Austria > Vienna > Exhibitions. Portrait painting, Austrian > Germany > Berlin > Exhibitions.

Table of Contents:

"More like one than one is" : modernist portraits / Uwe M. Schneede
Vienna-Berlin circa 1910 : avant-garde and metropolitan culture / Gregor streim
Gestures in Oskar Kokoschka's early portraits / Patrick Werkner
"A sea ringed about with visions" : on cryptotheology and philosophy of life in Kokoschka's early portraits / Thomas Trummer
Anatomical dissection and religious identification : a Wittgensteinian response to Kokoschka's alternative paradigms for truth in his self-portraiture prior to World War I / Claude Cernuschi
The pioneers : Loos, Kokoschka and their shared clients / Elana Shapira
"Your love affair with my painting" : Oskar Kokoschka and his early Viennese collectors / Werner J. Schweiger
Growing up with art : Kokoschka in my life / Peter A. Knize
"Could one paint the president of the United States?" : Kokoschka's reception in the U.S.A. / Tobias G. Natter
"Portraits of characters, not portraits of faces : an introduction to Kokoschka's early portraits / Tobias G. Natter
The dramatic and the drastic in Kokoschka's early portrait drawings / Monika Pessler
Oskar Kokoschka : from Jugendstil, "style of youth," to unmediated expression / Markus Neuwirth
Three texts on portraiture / Oskar Kokoschka.