Revised Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Berger, Hilde. Ob es Hass ist, solche Liebe? : Oskar Kokoschka und Alma Mahler. Wien: Bohlau, 1999. This German language source discusses the love affaire between Alma Mahler and Kokoschka from how it began and developed until it later became an obsession that existed only in his head.

Keegan, Susanne. The eye of God : a life of Oskar Kokoschka. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. This invaluable resource is the complete life of Oskar Kokoschka. Keegan worked closely with Olda Kokoschka, Oskar's wife, and many others to create this thorough and well-written bibliography complete with thirty-two photos and pictures.

Kokoschka, Oskar. Plays and poems. Trans. Michael Mitchell. Riverside, Calif.: Ariadne Press, 2001. This is a full word-for-word text of Kokoschka's scripts for his plays as well as his collection of poems, many of which he used in his art book work in conjunction with lithograph illustrations.

Kokoschka, Oskar. Stories from my life. Riverside, Calif.: Ariadne Press, 1998. In this work, Kokoschka tells a random selection of stories from his life. There are sixteen stories. It is an insight into the very poetic thought and philosophy of Oskar Kokoschka as well as an insight into history and the mindset of people in Vienna at the time.

Kokoschka, Oskar, Olda Kokoschka, and Alfred Marnau. Oskar Kokoschka Letters, 1905-1976. Trans. Mary Whittall. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992. This source has innumerable letters written by Kokoschka to people of the time, many of whom were famous or had something to do with his work, most notably, Alma Mahler. It should prove to be an interesting insight into his paintings and thought process.

Ludwig Goldscheider, in collaboration with the artist. Kokoschka. London Phaidon Publishers; distributed by New York Graphic Society Publishers: Greenwich Conn., 1963. This book has many of paintings, all in full color, by Oskar Kokoschka. It will be a wonderful source for specific works.

Roos, Bonnie. "Oskar Kokoschka's Sex Toy: The Women and the Doll Who Conceived the Artist." Modernism/Modernity 12.2 (2005): 291-309. This a bizarre yet very interesting article about Kokoschka's relationship to a doll that he made to look like Alma Mahler after he came back from World War I to find that she had married another man. The author discusses the eccentricity of Kokoschka and the doll as well as the importance of the doll in his work, which is usually overlooked by critics as much as the paintings modeled after the doll are overlooked.

Weidinger, Alfred. Kokoschka und Alma Mahler. München: Prestel-Verlag, 1996. This German language source is 122 pages devoted exclusively to the relationship between Alma Mahler und Oskar Kokoschka - where you can find them both in his work and what it means.

Wingler, Hans Maria. Oskar Kokoschka, the work of the painter. . Trans. and others Translated from the German by Frank S.C. Budgen, 1958. This book has many of Kokoschka's work including paintings, drawings, and lithographs, which will be essential as a reference when other sources mention a certain piece and do not include a picture of it.