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Rules for an Old Children's Game: After the Paintings of Egon Schiele

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dc.contributor.advisorSabina Murray
dc.contributor.advisorNoy Holland
dc.contributor.authorMar, Jenny
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish
dc.date2023-09-23T07:19:46.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T21:19:37Z
dc.date.available2012-07-23T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2012-01-01
dc.date.submittedSeptember
dc.description.abstractPart memoir, history and forgery, this novel chronicles a child’s love affair with the violent expressionist paintings of Egon Schiele. The novel is written in switchback time and takes place in the 1960’s and the early twentieth century (1910-1915). An unnamed narrator and his Viennese circle of friends are trying to restore the history of the great painter when a mysterious man turns up at the door. Wilhelm Boehme claims to know more about Schiele than any history book. But what Boehme describes is not just a coming of age story but the unsettling process of history rewriting itself, tucking into its folds, parts of the narrative that are too disturbing for a culture. In this novel are real events mixed with fantasies; personal chronicles from real historians and institutional figures (Alessandra Comini, Werner Hoffman)—and fictionalized characters taken from paintings that still hang in our galleries.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/3122271
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/47863
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2024&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectEgon Schiele
dc.subjectpaintings
dc.subjecthistory
dc.subjectforgery
dc.subjectWilhelm Boehme
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectFiction
dc.titleRules for an Old Children's Game: After the Paintings of Egon Schiele
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dc.typearticle
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digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:mypetdinosaur@yahoo.com|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst|Mar, Jenny
digcom.date.embargo2012-07-23T00:00:00-07:00
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