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Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 : the world in female form / Gilles Néret ; [translation, Charity Scott Stokes].

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Köln : Taschen, ©2011.Description: 96 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783836531429
  • 3836531429
Other title:
  • Klimt [Cover title]
  • World in female form
Uniform titles:
  • Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6811.5.K55 N4713 2011
Contents:
Vienna between Reality and Illusion -- Secessionist Symbolism and Femmes Fatales -- The Hymn to Joy and the Beethoven Frieze -- The Exotic Mosaics of the Villa Stoclet -- The Magic Kaleidoscope -- All Art is Erotic -- Gustav Klimat 1862-1918: Life and Work -- List of Plates -- Notes.
Summary: Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. This book is a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.
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Originally published in 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 96).

Vienna between Reality and Illusion -- Secessionist Symbolism and Femmes Fatales -- The Hymn to Joy and the Beethoven Frieze -- The Exotic Mosaics of the Villa Stoclet -- The Magic Kaleidoscope -- All Art is Erotic -- Gustav Klimat 1862-1918: Life and Work -- List of Plates -- Notes.

Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. This book is a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.

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