KLIMT WOA PA

by WHITFORD,FRANK

• ISBN13: 9780500202463
• ISBN10: 050020246X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1990-09-17
• Publisher: THAMES&HUD

Summary

Gustav Klimt's work brilliantly negotiates the borders between the traditional and the modern, the figurative and non-figurative. His subtly erotic portraits, richly patterned landscapes and enigmatic allegorical compositions are at once sensuous and refined, while his extravagant, ornamental style verges on abstraction. Obliged to go his own way when he was denied public commissions, Klimt became the leader of the modernists in Vienna, perhaps the greatest portraitist of his age, a landscape painter of dazzling originality and, above all, the creator of extraordinary decorative schemes. Frank Whitford examines the artist's work against the background of his time - the tragic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the light shed by political and cultural history, Klimt's paintings and personality emerge with new clarity.

Table of Contents

Preface	6	(9)
Introduction A Portrait and the Artist	9	(14)
Pageantry and Paradox	23	(16)
The Company of Artists	39	(10)
Scandal	49	(18)
Secession	67	(16)
The Artist as God	83	(12)
Life as Art	95	(16)
Another Rebellion	111	(20)
Portrait and Personality	131	(24)
The Eternal Feminine	155	(22)
The Pattern of Landscape	177	(16)
The Final Years	193	(14)
Bibliography	207	(1)
Sources of Quotations	208	(2)
List of Illustrations	210	(3)
Index	213