The Visions Of Arnold Schonberg Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Max Hollein and Blazenka Perica. Essays by Otto Breicha, Robert Fleck, Daniel Libeskind, Karin von Maur, Christian Meyer, Nuria Nono-Schonberg, Ferdinand Zehentreiter. In his art, composer Arnold Schonberg was always eager to embrace the new and the unfamiliar. A characteristic feature of his music around 1910 was a quest for analogous forms in other media, a search which led him to shift from music to painting. The expressionist paintings he produced during this period garnered glowing praise from Kandinsky--and have lost none of their extraordinary power today, though they are rarely exhibited. Focusing on his self portraits and abstract works, this publication provides a welcome, analytic, and extensive view of Schonberg's highly influential and visionary oeuvre.
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