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Maria Lassnig: Paintings

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Maria Lassnig: Paintings


Austrian painter Maria Lassnig, may not share the supposed world of ideal 'transubstantiations', she would wholeheartedly agree with 'we must go back to the working, actual body – not the body as a chunk of space or a bundle of functions but that body which is an intertwining of vision and movement.'

Language

English

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Composition

Hardcover

Contributors

Barry Rosen and Jaap van Liere; with Gioia Timpanell (eds.), Lee Lozano

Pages

26 pages

Size

32.5 x 25.5 cm

ISBN

lassnig-paintings

Publication Date

Feb-04

The Artist

MARIA LASSNIG

Born in Carinthia in Southern Austria in 1919, Maria Lassnig’s (1919 – 2014) work is based on the observation of the physical presence of the body and what she termed ‘body awareness’, or ‘Körpergefühl’ in German. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the midst of the Second World War. Then, in post-war Europe, she quickly moved away from the state-approved academic realism in which she was trained, looking to Austria’s own avant-garde past, such as the coloration of Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele’s expressionist treatment of figuration.

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