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Text: Italian

FROM OUR EDITORS

The short and troubled life of Egon Schiele is legendary. Eventually charged with disseminating pornography, he produced a large body of work that was steeped in the expression of his desires. Frank Whitford's sensitive telling of the gifted artist's life story serves as a terrific introduction to the rich world of psychic pain and beautiful painting that Schiele left us.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during the last years of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family, hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay. He was only twenty-eight when he died, yet he left behind him a body of work that sustains a huge public reputation--and a myth. This book sets out to examine both. 151 illus., 20 in color.