Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

Claude Cernuschi

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English

Routledge
07 October 2024

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Drawing & drawings; Individual artists, art monographs; Popular culture; Painting & art manuals

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete.

Claude Cernuschi analyzes each comparison on a case-by-case basis, primarily because the interpretation of cartoons and caricatures is highly contingent on their specific historical and cultural context. Although this connection has gone unnoticed in the literature, in retrospect, this correlation makes perfect sense. Not only was Schiele’s artistic production frequently compared to caricature (and derided for being “grotesque”), but Expressionism and caricature are natural allies. One may belong to “high” art and the other to “popular” culture, yet both presuppose similar assumptions and deploy a similar rhetorical position: namely, that the exaggeration of human physiognomy allows deeper psychological “truths” to emerge.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, popular culture, and politics.

By: Claude Cernuschi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9781032229300
ISBN 10: 1032229306
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 07 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"1. Introduction: Egon Schiele and Caricature 2. Landscapes and Townscapes 3. Religion 4. Children 5. Sexuality 6. Body ""Language"" 7. Facial Expressions 8. Hands 9. Fashion and Fashionability 10. Coda"

Claude Cernuschi is Professor of Art History at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA.