Book Description
Even pioneering and similarly reviled contemporaries of Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) had their reservations about the pornographic side of Schiele's visual world. But, for Schiele, it was an exploration into the image of "woman" from various angles and phases. He painted everything form the budding, awkward body of the pubescent girl to the seductive vamp. His unsparing passion was not only brought to bear on female nudes; his countless drawings, gouaches, and watercolors, were equally unremitting. In 1911, he wrote, "the erotic of art is sacred too".
