Contents

• Preface / Renee Price
• Foreword / Ume M. Schneede
• "More Like One Than One Is": Modernist Portraits / Ume M. Schneede
• Vienna - Berlin Circa 1910: Avant-Garde and Metropolitan Culture / Gregor Streim
• Gestures in Oskar Kokoschka’s Early Portraits / Patrick Werkner
• "A Sea Ringed About with Visions": On Crytotheology and Philosophy of Life in Kokoschka’s Early Portraits / Thomas Trummer
• Anatomical Dissection and Religious Identification: A Wittgensteinian Response to Kokoschka’s Alternative Paradigms for Truth in His Self-Portraiture Prior to World War I / Claude Cernuschi
• The Pioneers: Loos, Kokoschka and Their Shared Clients / Elana Shapira - - "Your Love Affair with My Paintings": Oskar Kokoschka and his Early Viennese Collectors / Werner J. Schweiger
• Growing Up with Art: Kokoschka in My Life / Peter A. Knize
• "Could One Paint the President of the United States?" Kokoschka’s Reception in the U.S.A. / Tobias G. Natter
• "Portraits of Characters, Not Portraits of Faces": An Introduction to Kokoschak’s Early Portraits / Tobias G. Natter
• Portraits
• The Dramatic and the Drastic in Kokoschka’s Early Portrait Drawings / Monika Pessler
• Drawings
• Oskar Kokoschka: From Jugendstil, "Style of Youth," to Unmediated Expression / Markus Neuwirth
• Three Texts on Portraiture / Oskar Kokoschka