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Defining 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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Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity
- Architects, Carvers, Engravers, Modellers, Painters, Sculptors, Statuaries, and Workers in Bronze, Gold, Ivory, and Silver, With Three Chronological Tables
(Hardcover)
Julius 1801-1855 Sillig; Created by Henry W Translator Williams, Edmund Henry 1788-1839 Barker
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This 1000 piece puzzle features art from the best-selling video
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Best known by her stage name, La Goulue (the Glutton), Louise Weber
was one of the biggest stars of fin de siecle Paris, renowned as a
cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge. The subject of numerous
paintings and photographs, she became an iconic figure of modern
art. Her life, however, has consistently been misrepresented and
reduced to a footnote in the stories of men such as Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec. Where most accounts dismiss her rise and fall as
brief and rapid, the truth is that her career as a performer
spanned five decades, during which La Goulue constantly reinvented
herself-as a dancer, animal tamer, sideshow performer, and muse of
photographers, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers. With Beyond the
Moulin Rouge, the first substantive English-language study of La
Goulue's career and posthumous influence, Will Visconti corrects
persistent myths. Despite a tumultuous personal life, La Goulue
overcame loss, abusive relationships, and poverty to become the
very embodiment of nineteenth-century Paris, feted by royalty and
followed as closely as any politician or monarch. Visconti draws on
previously overlooked materials, including medical records, media
reports across Europe and the United States, and surviving pages
from Louise Weber's diary, to trace the life and impact of a woman
whose cultural significance has been ignored in favor of the men
around her, and who spent her life upending assumptions about
gender, morality, and domesticity in France during the fin de
siecle and early twentieth century.
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