The Fantastic Art of Vienna, by Alessandra Comini

The Fantastic Art of Vienna, by Alessandra Comini. 1999 softcover. 133 pages, very nice condition.

This book is the first to present the work of the Viennese fantastic artists in a single volume - the renowned masters Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Hundertwasser - and such lesser known but brilliant painters as Brauer, Fuchs, Hausner, Romako, and others. Sensual, decadent, erotic and frightening, diverse in style and technique, these superb works hold the same strange beauty, fascination, and perverse humor that are embedded in the character of Vienna itself. Celebrated art historian Alessandra Comini presents the work of these amazing artists and their themes of wrenching duality: reality and illusion, sexuality and death, the external world and the internal self.