书名：The Self-Portrait：from Schiele to Beckmann/自画像：从席勒到贝克曼

作者：Tobias G. Natter|Philipp Blomm|Monika Faber|Rolf H. Johannsen|Guido Messling|Olaf Peters|Uwe M. Schneede|Stefan Weppelmann

出版：Prestel，2019

装帧：精装，216页，插图188

语种：英语

尺寸：23.5x28.5cm

印刷：Italy

这本视觉效果震撼的书籍对几位著名的德国和奥地利表现主义艺术家进行了深刻剖析，这些艺术家重新定义了现代自画像。

自画像一直是艺术表达的重要组成部分。像埃尔·格列柯和伦勃朗这样的新古典主义画家将这一创作形式规范化，而在20世纪上半叶，自画像的风格和背景发生了巨大转变，尤其是在德国和奥地利表现主义艺术家的笔下。书中收录了埃贡·席勒、马克斯·贝克曼、恩斯特·路德维希·基希纳、奥斯卡·柯克西卡等人作品的生动复制品，并配有文章探讨这些艺术家——其中许多人被纳粹党归类为“堕落者”——如何在他们的画作中融入对反抗、孤独、困境和挑衅的有力表达。从席勒充满情色意味且直白展现身体的画作，到贝克曼对精神创伤饱含情感的描绘，这部对现代欧洲绘画重要方面的重要研究，精彩地阐释了表现主义自画像如何成为对抗艺术压迫的有力武器。 

The self-portrait has been a vital aspect of artistic expression throughout history. Neo-Classical painters such as El Greco and Rembrandt formalized the practice, and the first half of the 20th century saw a dramatic transformation in the self-portrait's style and context, especially in the hands of the German and Austrian Expressionists. Vibrant reproductions of works by Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, and others are accompanied by essays that explore how these artists--many of whom were classified as "degenerate" by the Nazi party--imbued their images with eloquent expressions of resistance, isolation, entrapment, and provocation. From Schiele's erotically charged and overtly physical paintings to Beckmann's emotionally fraught depictions of psychic trauma, this important examination of a powerful aspect of modern European painting brilliantly illustrates how the Expressionist self-portrait became a powerful weapon against artistic oppression.

This visually stunning volume offers perceptive examinations of several renowned German and Austrian Expressionist artists who redefined modern self-portraiture.