Kubin's Dance of Death and Other Drawings

Kubin, Alfred

Dover Publications. Inc.

Renowned as one of the all-time finest illustrators of fantastic themes, Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877–1959) illustrated more than 70 books, including the works of Dostoyevsky and Poe as well as his own fiction. Kubin came of age under the influence of the Symbolists' preoccupation with decadent subjects, and his Expressionistic drawings range from spooky to sexy to comical. This volume presents the only English-language version of Kubin's autobiography, accompanied by numerous examples of his extraordinary drawings. The artist's memoirs recount his troubled youth, which was shadowed by his hatred for his estranged father, his attempted suicide at the grave of his beloved mother, and his mental breakdown during military service. Upon his 1899 enrollment at the Munich Academy, Kubin discovered a world of inspiration in the works of Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, James Ensor, and Max Klinger, and he vowed to dedicate his life to the creation of similarly imaginative art. After a brief association with the Blaue Reiter group, Kubin withdrew from avant-garde circles and produced his fantastical, often macabre images in isolation.The pen-and-ink drawings featured in this compilation include grotesques from his "Dance of Death" sequence, which employs a Renaissance theme to reflect the artist's interpretation of modern society and its rapid changes, as well as illustrations from his phantasmagorical novel The Other Side, which portrays a dream kingdom dedicated to the rejection of progress. Blending vision and technical mastery, Kubin's art offers fascinating glimpses into a hallucinatory dream world.

The Life and Art of Alfred Kubin

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Dover Publications

Abendrot: Unveröffentlichte Zeichnungen Mit Einer Kleinen Plauderei Über Sich Selbst, Hrsg. Von Reinhard Piper (German Edition)

Reference

Nabu Press

The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconcious, or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the artists and writers of the Expressionist generation. ' Expressionist illustrator Kubin wrote this fascinating curio, his only literary work in 1908. A town named Pearl, assembled and presided over by the aptly named Patera, is the setting for his hallucinatory vision of a society founded on instinct over reason. Culminating apocalyptically - plagues of insects, mountains of corpses and orgies in the street - it is worth reading for its dizzying surrealism alone. Though ostensibly a gothic macabre fantasy, it is tempting to read The Other Side as a satire on the reactionary, idealist utopianism evident in German thought in the early twentieth century, highly prescient in its gloom, given later developments. The language often suggests Nietsche. The inevitable collapse of Patera's creation is lent added horror by hindsight. Kubin's depiction of absurd bureaucracy is strongly reminiscent of Kafka's The Trial, and his flawed utopia, situated next to a settlement of supposed savages, brings to mind Huxley's Brave New World; it precedes both novels, and this superb new translation could demonstrate its influence on subsequent modern literature.' Kieron Pim in Time Out It will appeal to fans of Mervyn Peake and readers who like the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque in their reading.

The Other Side (Dedalus European Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Dedalus Limited

Alfred Kubin: Book Illustrator

Graphic Design

Chosho Publishing

Die andere Seite: Ein phantastischer Roman

Nymphenburger

Die andere Seite: Ein phantastischer Roman (rororo Taschenbücher)

Contemporary

Rowohlt Taschenbuch

Perle und Tarockanien (Bloch) (German Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Edition Spangenberg im Ellermann-Verl

Zirkus des Lebens: 32 Zigeunerkt (Historische Kartenspiele und Spielregeln in Faksimileausgaben : Sonderausgabe) (German Edition)

Heimeran

Alfred Kubin

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Verlag für moderne Kunst

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