Gustav Klimt The Complete Paintings — Tobias G Natter
Gustav Klimt The Complete Paintings
Tobias G NatterTaschen
Gustav Klimt The Complete Paintings
Tobias G NatterDefining Decadence The legacy of Gustav Klimt A century after his death Viennese artist Gustav Klimt 1862 1918 still startles with his unabashed eroticism dazzling surfaces and artistic experimentation This monograph gathers all of Klimt s major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist s archive with some 179 letters cards writings and other documents With top quality illustration including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of 1897 his candid rendering of the female body and his lustrous golden phase when gold leaf brought a shimmering tone and texture to such beloved works as The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I also known as The Woman in Gold Through luminous spreads and carefully curated details the monograph traces the repertoire of Japanese Byzantine and allegorical stimuli that informed Klimt s flattened perspectives his symbolic vocabulary and his mosaic like textures Drawing upon contemporary critics and voices the book also examines the art world s polarized reception to Klimt s pictures as much as his own stylistic trajectory From his landscape painting to erotic works to the controversial ceiling for the Great Hall of the University of Vienna we see how Klimt s admixture of tradition and daring divided the press and public becried by some as a pornographer hailed by others as a modern maestro
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An unparalleled work of Klimt scholarship that revisits his work in the context of his contemporaries When a painting by Gustav Klimt was sold at auction in 2006 for a reported 135 million dollars Klimt fervor reached a pitch that many observers saw as a climax and perhaps even as a swan song Not for the first time they were wrong long after that headline sale Klimt remains very much a focus of attention The countless events being held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth make a clear statement to this effect Not that it takes such a special occasion for the press and the public to start talking about Klimt More than two hundred articles about the artist appeared online in August 2011 alone in comparison with barely seventy on Rembrandt within the same period This media publicity set editor Tobias G Natter thinking about the value of compiling the present book During his lifetime Klimt was a controversial star whose works made passions run high he stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition His pictures polarized and divided the art loving world Journalists and general public alike were split over the question For or against Klimt The present publication therefore places particular emphasis upon the voices of Klimt s contemporaries via a series of essays examining reactions to his work throughout his career Subjects range from Klimt s portrayal of women to his adoption of landscape painting in the second half of his life The cliché that Gustav Klimt was a man of few words who rarely put pen to paper is vehemently dispelled no less than 231 letters cards writings and other documents all known Klimt correspondence are included in this monograph This wealth of archival material assembled here for the first time on such a scale represents a major contribution to Klimt scholarship Defining features of this edition Catalog of Klimt s complete paintingsAll known letter correspondenceDili İngilizceYayınevi Taschen