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Klimt

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4.1 out of 5
Based on 98 Ratings and 31 Reviews

Book Description
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 (1862-1918) and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty, was constantly overshadowed by death, and death therefore plays an important role ... More
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PublisherTaschen Verlag
BindingHardcover (39 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages239
ISBN-103822850160
ISBN-13978-3822850169
Publication Date06/01/2006
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About Gustav Fliedl (Author) : Gustav Fliedl is a published author. Some of the published credits of Gustav Fliedl include Klimt (Big Art).
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