TY - BOOK AU - Néret,Gilles TI - Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918: the world in female form SN - 9783836531429 AV - N6811.5.K55 N4713 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Köln PB - Taschen KW - Klimt, Gustav, KW - Women in art N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -