Here is a slender but important collection of Alfred Kubin's art. It is one of the few English volumes available and contains Kubin's finest late pen-and-ink drawings. Kubin assimilated the troubled worlds of Edgar Allan Poe, Max Klinger, Odilon Redon, Franz Kafka, Gustav Meyrink, and Schopenhauer. The resulting art therefore straddles both a symbolist and expressionist aesthetic. His visions are decidedly decadent, macabre, weird, sardonic, often pessimistic, while the expressionist edge of his work is shown in his crude lines, blots and scratches of ink, and the grimy world he evokes.
Most of the drawings in this book are not published elsewhere. They are taken from very early editions of Kubin's work: Dance of Death (1918) and Fifty Drawings (1923); several from the Serge Sabarsky Exhibition are also included. These morbid pictures celebrate the triumph of death in everyday life. In each drawing, all manner of people are assailed by the figure of death: peasants, artists, pilgrims, sailors, children, and beautiful women. There are some remarkably chilling works here: "The Child" shows a skeleton in grandmother's clothing leading a child into a dark closet; in "The Draftsman" a skeletal figure is seen maliciously subduing the artist; "In the Basement" depicts a rotting corpse clinging lustfully to a dead woman; and "The Painter" is both light-hearted and grim, as a skeleton puts on the garb of an artist, who lies dead at a canvas, and finishes the painting.
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