The women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka
By: edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco, Jane Kallir, and Alfred Weidinger
Contributors: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Edition: English edition.
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783791354941
Subjects: Women in art; Sex in art; Modern Art; Exhibitions; Austrian Art; Female nude in art; Expressionism (Art)
Description: "In the early twentieth century, the traditional relationship between the sexes was challenged by a number of social, economic, and philosophical changes. It  was above all the incipient development towards gender equality and sexual liberation that upset the restrictive moral conventions of the nineteenth century. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka--then the three most outstanding painters of Viennese Modernism--approached the subject matter generally referred to as 'the woman question' from slightly different perspectives"--Jacket.
Notes: "This catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition The women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoscha, held at the Belvedere, Vienna, from October 22, 2015 to February 28, 2016"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated into English from the German.
Table of contents: title: Love, psyche, and obsession: the women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka / Agnes Husslein-Arco; title: On the women's question in Vienna ca. 1900: gender asymmetries, emancipation efforts. and uprisings / Luisa Ziaja; title: Competing influences that gave rise to the modern representation of women / Eric Kandel; title: The Primal Addiction or the pleasure in one's own body: feminine sexuality in the work of Gustav Klimt / Alfred Weidinger; title: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka: men looking at women looking at men / Jane Kallir; title: Gustav Klimt - machismo and nervous heroines: thoughts on the image of women / Alfred Weidinger; title: Egon Schiele - "a nice young man from a respectable middle class family" / Jane Kallir; title: Oskar Kokoschka - chief savage and pathetic pageant of folds / Mateusz Mayer.