Includes bibliographical references (page 238). Translated [from the German] by Hugh Beyer.
Contents:
1. Introduction: Klimt's popularity -- 2. Klimt's fame -- 3. Klimt's Vienna -- then and now -- 4. Years of training -- 5. Early works and the beginning of a career -- 6. Early Portraits -- 7. "Oedipal revolt" -- the secession -- 8. Modernity -- 9. The faculty paintings -- 10. Early landscapes -- 11. The secession building and its exhibitions -- 12. The Beethoven frieze -- 13. The kiss -- 14. The three ages of woman -- 15. Hope -- 16. Judith -- 17. The Stoclet frieze -- 18. The break-up of the seccession and the 1908 Kunstschau exhibition -- 19. "I'm not particularly interesting" -- 20. Landscapes -- 21. "Solitary dialogues": Klimt's erotic drawings -- 22. "The world in female form" -- 23. Danae -- 24. Ladies' portraits -- 25. Late works.
Summary:
Fliedl's introduction to the life and work of one of the leading artistic personalities of the turn of the century has become a standard work on Klimt.
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