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Egon Schiele's Portraits

With a New Preface

By: Alessandra Comini

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The meaning of portraiture in the egocentric and erotic culture of Vienna at the end of the Hapsburg Empire frames Alessandra Comini's definitive, lavishly illustrated study of the art of Egon Schiele (1890-1918), first published in 1975 and now available in paperback with a new preface and updated bibliography. Comini analyzes Schiele's work in the context of Viennese Expressionism, rising existential consciousness, and the unique ambiance of Vienna. The human figure forms the most compelling motif in Schiele's oeuvre, which is comprised of hundreds of oils and thousands of drawings. Numerous self-portraits record emotional states, reflect major stylistic changes, and provide a brilliant focus for this examination of his art and his life.

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0520068696

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The Kokoschka Capers

A Megan Crespi Mystery Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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The Kokoschka Capers

A Megan Crespi Mystery Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

In this third book in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, a major double portrait by the Viennese Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka showing himself with his lover Alma Mahler has been stolen from the Basel Museum in Switzerland. Left in its place is an exact duplicate, except that Alma has been replaced by an unknown woman. Retired professor of art history Megan Crespi, an expert on Viennese art, is called in to help with the investigation. Then, a second theft of fourteen crates of unknown Kokoschka artworks from a Viennese storage vault takes Megan to Vienna. There she meets by accident the mysterious multimillionaire Desdemona Dumba. A stunning anorexic, Desdemona feels it is her role in life to bring Kokoschka’s lost works together and away from public scrutiny. Meanwhile, two individuals, Leo Lang and Bruno Fichte-Mahler, harbor fanatical interest in Kokoschka and go to extreme measures either to desecrate or to protect the artist’s images of Alma. An endangered Megan pursues leads that take her from Basel and Vienna to Berlin and finally to Xenia, Desdemona’s remote islet off the Greek island of Corfu. Includes Readers Guide.

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Sunstone Press

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1611393973

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Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Käthe Kollwitz,Alessandra Comini,Hildegard Bachert

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Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Käthe Kollwitz,Alessandra Comini,Hildegard Bachert

The German printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz's images of mothers and children and of protest against social injustice have long been admired by both critics and the public. Kollwitz adhered to a figurative style in the era of abstraction and she depicted socially-engaged subject matter when it was unfashionable. Critics have often focused on those issues and have rarely studied the ways in which the artist manipulated technique and resolved formal problems. This illustrated book redresses this imbalance, portraying Kollwitz as an innovative and virtuosic artist rather than a mere chronicler of particular themes.

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Yale University Press

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0300061684

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9780300061680

The Kokoschka Capers

A Megan Crespi Mystery Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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A Megan Crespi Mystery Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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The Kandinsky Conundrum

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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The Kandinsky Conundrum

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

A moving van filled with eleven Wassily Kandinsky paintings stolen from Munich’s famous Lenbach House Museum during a violent neo-Nazi demonstration is hijacked in Slovakia. Two rival Kandinsky collectors appear to be involved: Igor Rasputin of Odessa, visiting in Munich, and Boris Zima of Moscow, whose agent Raisa Sokolova is keeping tabs on Rasputin. Puzzlingly, the museum adamantly declares there has been no theft, even though its night watchman has been found murdered. Also visiting Munich is retired art history professor Megan Crespi, slated to give a lecture she titles, curiously enough, “Double Kandinsky.” In between visits to “mad” King Ludwig’s fantasy castles, Megan comes into contact with possible suspects, ranging from Rasputin to Iris and Laszlo Togarassy, owners of Munich’s new The Blue Rider gallery featuring Kandinsky’s works, to Katrina Keller, associate director of the Lenbach. Manipulating events connected with the theft are a young, careless gambler who owns a building behind the Lenbach, two men from the Ukrainian island of Amiinyi—one a computer wizard, the other a science photographer—and their Munich engineer friend Alyksandr Miesel, neo-Nazi leader Walter Krankenhauer, and Detective Dieter Löser. Crespi’s lecture, including results of state-of-the-art XRF technology, becomes the revelatory preamble to a thrilling denouement that cracks the Kandinsky conundrum.

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Sunstone Press

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1611395429

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9781611395426

The Changing Image of Beethoven

A Study in Mythmaking

By: Alessandra Comini

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The Changing Image of Beethoven

A Study in Mythmaking

By: Alessandra Comini

An exploration of the mythopoesis of Beethoven across two centuries.

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1632932008

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Killing for Klimt

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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Killing for Klimt

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

In this first in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt, becomes involved in a race to recover the Secretum, a “shameful, secret panel” stolen from the artist’s studio the night after his death in February of 1918. Her travels, at the behest of New York’s Moderne Galerie Museum, owner of the famed 1907 “golden” Klimt portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, take her from the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Switzerland’s Ascona, as well as to New York, Vienna, Helsinki, Paris, Montreal, and Girdwood, Alaska. Megan is shadowed by two different assassins hired by fanatical Günther Winter. Owner of Alaska’s Alpenglow Hotel, he keeps his secret art collection in an annex basement. Several killings occur involving the interested criminal parties and naïve owners of Klimt artworks. Finally setting up a trade—Winter’s Secretum for the golden Adele—Crespi and two colleagues fly to Alaska. They bring with them two crates: one purporting to contain the Adele portrait, and a larger one to receive the Secretum panel. But there, greed leads to unexpected and colossal consequences. Will Megan survive the final killing for Klimt?

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1632930064

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The Kollwitz Calamities

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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The Kollwitz Calamities

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such an unlikely theft? On a visit to the director of the Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, retired art history professor and Kollwitz scholar Megan Crespi is asked to aid in tracking down the robber or robbers. As she pursues clues and visits possible suspects more Kollwitz statues are stolen in Cologne and Berlin. Crespi’s itinerary takes her to the Berlin Kollwitz Museum, Weimar, the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, Greifswald, and finally to the Kollwitz House in Moritzburg. On the way she interacts with physicians Abraham Rückgabe and Iliana Frankel, the just-married couple Monika von Putbus and Akram al-Aljamie, and unscrupulous CEO of Rügen’s asbestos-contaminated Dorotek factory, Reinhold Fromm, collector of dominatrix drawings. We meet possible suspects, Iranian prince Yusri Pahlavi, greedy Lukas Zamann of the Galerie Zamann, and the mysterious “Marie Schmidt,” of Moritzburg, Kollwitz’s final home. All seem to be connected to the spate of Kollwitz thefts. Can Crespi solve these thefts and will the precious artworks be found? An unexpected denouement involving seven persons and two cats gives us the answer.

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161139497X

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9781611394979

The Mahler Mayhem

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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The Mahler Mayhem

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

During a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera there is an explosion in the foyer just off the auditorium. Auguste Rodin’s famous 1909 bronze bust of composer and conductor Gustav Mahler has been blown up and a hate-filled note has been left at the scene demanding that there be “no more Jews defiling our culture.” Retired art historian and musicologist Megan Crespi, in Vienna to lecture, is at the performance with her former student, the renowned cellist Egga Streicher, and is asked by her friend, Chief of Police Erich Decker, to help in tracking down the culprit. Soon copy-cat vandalism of Jewish monuments around the city breaks out. Things come to a horrendous climax during a performance of Mahler’s great Second Symphony, the “Resurrection” symphony, but is it the only surprise awaiting Megan Crespi’s dangerous investigation? Includes Readers Guide.

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1611395674

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9781611395679

The Kollwitz Calamities

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

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The Kandinsky Conundrum

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

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A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

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Killing for Klimt

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

By: Alessandra Comini

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Killing for Klimt

A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel

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1611392810

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The Fantastic Art of Vienna

Great and Timeless Paintings from a Realm of Laughter and Light, of Brooding, Darkness and Splendid Decadence

By: Alessandra Comini

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The Fantastic Art of Vienna

Great and Timeless Paintings from a Realm of Laughter and Light, of Brooding, Darkness and Splendid Decadence

By: Alessandra Comini

An investigation of the historic Viennese milieu of plural dualities in which artists, musicians, writers, and scientists worked in the city not only of dreams but of nightmares.

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1632931532

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Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Käthe Kollwitz,Alessandra Comini,Hildegard Bachert

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Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Käthe Kollwitz,Alessandra Comini,Hildegard Bachert

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Yale University Press

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0300061684

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9780300061680

Kyra Belan From Myth to Reality

By: Alessandra Comini,Carol Damian,Basia Sliwinska

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Kyra Belan From Myth to Reality

By: Alessandra Comini,Carol Damian,Basia Sliwinska

This book is about feminist, social and political art by Kyra Belan and a record of her solo exhibition at Ceres Gallery, New York. Her works include paintings, drawings in colored pencils, textual and mixed media. Created in contemporary realist or surreal styles these artworks express her feminist, political and ecological concerns, and her interpretations of symbols, legends and myths that are relevant to women. They convey multiple layers of messages that are accessible and relevant to the observers. The two main Series featured in this solo exhibition are her ongoing Lady Liberty and the Amazing Women.

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1097634728

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9781097634729

Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington, [exhibition, May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Alessandra Comini,National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

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Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington, [exhibition, May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Alessandra Comini,National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Few artists are as universally beloved as the German printmaker, draftsman, and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz, whose powerful images of mothers and children and of protest against social injustice have long been admired by both critics and the public. Kollwitz, a woman in a field dominated by men, steadfastly adhered to a figurative style in the era of abstraction and depicted socially engaged subject matter when it was unfashionable. Kollwitz is largely known through political posters and restrikes of her prints. Her reputation has to some extent been dominated by an emphasis on the social content of her work, often at the expense of her remarkable artistic skills. The present study challenges that view by focusing on the artistic aspect of her achievement. The book consists of three essays on Kollwitz. Elizabeth Prelinger provides a reassessment of Kollwitz as an artist; Alessandra Comini presents a richly atmospheric discussion of the artist's life in Berlin during the tumultuous period that spanned two world wars; and Hildegard Bachert surveys the reception of Kollwitz in Germany and the United States as manifested in collections of her works. The volume, which includes a selection of the finest examples of Kollwitz' oeuvre, juxtaposes preparatory drawings with finished art, illustrating the arduous experimental processes by which she attained her brilliant results. Themes important to Kollwitz--such as self-portraits, social activism as illustrated in the cycles A Weavers' Rebellion and Peasants' War, love and death, nudes, workers, war and revolution--are explored in depth in all media. The book will serve as the catalogue for an exhibition of Kollwitz' prints, drawings, and works of sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from May 3 to August 26, 1992.

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0300057296

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The Kandinsky Conundrum

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The Fantastic Art of Vienna

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Kyra Belan From Myth to Reality

Kyra Belan From Myth to Reality

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