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Arrogance
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Joanna Scott
In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputa...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
June 1st 2004
by Picador
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The last chapter was so perfect, so beautiful, so moving. You get into the heads of Vallie(the mistress), Gerti (the youngest sister) and Egon himself - the artist. You understand who he was and why he was the way he was. I would like to tell you more, but I do not want to wreck it for you. Another 5 star book. If you are moved by art - then read this book! I was going to read Girl with a Pearl Earring after this, but to do that would be unfair. I would compare the two, and I believe I would unf...more
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This was the first novel I've read by Joanna Scott, not to be confused with the other two Joanna Scotts. I think I first heard of Scott when I was reading an interview with an author that I liked (can't remember who...Wallace? DeLillo?) and they mentioned her name as a contemporary author they admired, so I went and looked her up. To give brief synopsis, it is a novel based on the life of Expressionist Austrian painter Egon Schiele, whose art was 'controversial' and often deemed 'pornographic...more
On a recent visit to the Neue Gallery in New York I cam across the work of Egon Schiele, an Austrian artist who worked in the very early years of the 20th century, and died in 1918 during the flu pandemic in Europe. His work blew me away. The content--quite erotic---but the style was what astounded me. He was so ahead of his time that I can only say that his work looks post-punk and his self-portraits look like contemporary work. I spied this book--a fictionalized account of his life and tim...more
Growing on me. Read at first by sheer will-power, but finally to a point where I am past repulsion at Schiele and open to how it's moving. Hardest thing is that I cannot binge-read, I have to take it in small doses, because it is overwhelming.
An interesting insight into the life of painter Egon Schiele, mostly from the perspective of various women in his life. Fiction. It was a bit difficult to track the story lines, and I didn't feel that I learned as much about his personality and art as I had hoped. Writing is spotty.
The artist who 'crucified himself for his art', a crosscutting of narratives and voices that reveal an inevitability about the suffering of tortured genius. Well written and intensely engaging, deeply sad and shabby yet with the fierce uplift of arrogance.
Reminded me of how I felt reading Manikin the first time. It's fantastic and whatever I say about it won't do it justice. I swear, everything this woman writes is gold.
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not the best book of all time. affirms: pictures are better than words.
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