Somatic

Somatic: The Life and Work of Ego Schiele

Egon Schiele was born near Vienna in 1890. His father’s insanity and subsequent death from syphilis when Egon was fourteen initiated his artistic preoccupation with the human body as a manifestation of mental and spiritual torment. He died at the age of twenty-eight. Catherine Owen, haunted by his works, now brings them into focus for the reader in these sensitive, finely controlled poems. A remarkable blending of art and life, words and images.

Four colour reproductions of paintings by Egon Schiele

Poetry 1998 •  with Art • 6 x 9 inches • PB 77 pages •  9781550962345