Maria Lassnig: Works, Diaries & Writings

Focusing on Maria Lassnig's (1919-2014) elaborations of the self-portrait and her exploration of her personal relations with the object, the animal and the machine, Works, Diaries & Writings includes work made by the artist from 1942 up until shortly before her death in 2014 at age 94.
As an artist, Lassnig was preoccupied with a relentless self-questioning that she continued throughout her life. Her painting aimed at "body awareness," an effort to represent on canvas how her body felt to her from the inside. Her self-portraits were frequently expressed in traumatic, surrealistic forms that merged the human figure with the animal and the machine. This new volume presents 45 of Lassnig's paintings alongside a selection of her watercolors, videos, letters, photographs, drawings, writings (including from the artist's diaries) and archival material.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3863357337
• ISBN13: 9783863357337
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Koenig Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 9.5"