Klimt
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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
Book Information
Publisher | Taschen Verlag |
Binding | Hardcover (39 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 239 |
ISBN-10 | 3822850160 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3822850169 |
Publication Date | 06/01/2006 |
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