Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918: KA - Brossura

Neret, Gilles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 382285980X ISBN 13: 9783822859803

Casa editrice: Taschen America Llc, 2000

Riassunto

Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponent

Gustav Klimt’s ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful painter, draftsman, muralist, and graphic artist; in the intervening years, iconic works such as The Kiss have been elevated to nothing less than cult status. Klimt's unfading popularity attests to the appeal of not only his aesthetic sensibilities but also that of the recurrent universal themes in his work: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. He once wrote, "I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures." With this overview of Klimt's work, readers will delight in taking up that challenge.

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Physical description; 96 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 96). Translated into English. Summary; Gustav Klimt's art is thoroughly fin de siecle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore plays an important role in Klimt's art. Klimt's fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his times. In particular, his drawings, which have been widely admired for their artistic excellence, are dominated by the erotic portrayal of women. Klimt saw the world "in female form". Subjects Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918). Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) - Criticism and interpretation. Artists - Austria - Biography. Painting - Austria. Drawing - Austria. Individual artists ; Painting & paintings. Art / European. Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). Art / Individual Artists / General. Painting ; Austria ; Drawing. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated.

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• Editore: Taschen America Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 382285980X
• ISBN 13: 9783822859803
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96