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Article: Expressive compositions: From Italian frescoes to Richard Avedon's women to Chicago's lakefront.(Book Review)
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- December 7, 2005
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Byline: Alan Artner
``Arnold Schoenberg: Catalogue Raisonne'' by Christian Meyer; Thames & Hudson (two volumes, $295)
Arnold Schoenberg rightly has been called the most constantly expressive composer of the early 20th century. During that period he also painted, and those works, too, are relentlessly intense but much less well-known than his music. Now, more than 50 years after his death, come these two landmark volumes, which establish that his portraits, fantasies, caricatures and nature pieces shed light not only on the man but also culture of the pre-World War I era.
For once, a self-taught artist did not stand apart from the most powerful ...