Portrait of a Degenerate Artist

By Stephen Kane

Softcover, 211 pages, colour, 2018

Portrait of a Degenerate Artist has been saved from the fires of history.

For Oskar Kokoschka, the bullet that went through his head in 1915 was a hinge between two worlds. He awoke to the rise of the machine age and the seeds of fascism. In 1919 he tried to recreate his past with a life size doll of his ex-lover Alma Mahler.