Author: Kubin, AlfredThe art of the great Austrian draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin appears more current today than ever before; wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters and the manipulation of the masses pervade his highly narrative works. This book offers an exploration of Kubin’s oneiric worlds in terms of their relation to the unconscious. Kubin’s works are placed into a dialogue with 19th century and classical modernist works from which Kubin derived inspiration.Kubin’s nightmarish oeuvre extends Symbolism and the fantastical art of the 19th century and may be considered a precursor to French Surrealism, with its syntheses of actual and imaginary reality, its bleak realms that Kubin often seasoned with humour, irony and exaggeration.ISBN 9783753301983. Walther König, Köln. hb. 288 pages. 300 colour ills. 28 x 23 cm.not available
