The best of Klimt's drawings and watercolors, beautifully reproduced in full color. There is no doubt about Gustav Klimt's greatness as a draftsman. Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he establishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolors: the pencil or crayon line with which his subjects are described explores and caresses as though the act of drawing was itself a seduction. Klimt's drawings are often highly erotic and explicit, many to such an extent that they have rarely been reproduced. This has made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a draftsman, and a comprehensive survey of his graphic output is long overdue. Rainer Metzger, a noted art historian, has brought together hundreds of Klimt's drawings and watercolors in a way that enriches our knowledge of the artist and enhances the visual impact of his oeuvre. Klimt's drawings and studies, and his elegantly direct and dangerously intoxicating preparatory sketches, reveal the underlying impetus for and structure of his elaborate canvases. 307 color illustrations.

Gustav Klimt: Drawings & Watercolors

Metzger, Rainer

Klimt, Gustav

Reference

Thames&Hudson

Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: 2007 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Limited Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Berlin in the 1920s was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times The and was a vigorous melting pot of radical new ideas and concepts in every field. Comprising essays on the key movements and figures of the era. this book presents a readable portrait of this astonishing cultural ferment and its most important protagonists. Contents: The changing face of Berlin: a decade of rapid expansionp. 23The November vanishing point: revolution and reactionp. 59War and peace: Expressionism and Dadap. 77Vile circumstances: the aesthetics of verismp. 103Unity and purity: utopias. collectives and futurismsp. 125Metropolis of the modern: detachment and indifferencep. 155Cult and culture of the superficial: the new obje...

Berlin in the Twenties - Art and Culture 1918-1933 /anglais

History

Europe

This beautifully illustrated book paints a multifaceted portrait of sixties London and explores the reasons why it became the epicentre of a cultural boom that resounded around the world and whose echoes can still be heard today. London in the 1960s was the embodiment of everything that was inspirational, innovative and progressive. Powered by the three key elements of youth, affluence and the mass media, the city became the hub of sixties pop culture, with its bold and creative spirit attracting an international cast of artists and luminaries in all fields, from pop music and fashion to literature and the visual arts. While a new aristocracy of rockstars and trendsetters ruled the roost, Pop art took a witty and detached view of contemporary consumerism and architecture looked towards a utopian future. This title features a stellar array of artists, photographers, musicians, models, writers, designers and architects presented in context, including David Hockney, Francis Bacon, David Bailey, Alan Aldridge, Kenneth Tynan, Mick Jagger, The Beatles, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Ron Heron, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, Lucian Freud, Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie, Marianne Faithful, Michael Caine, Mary Quant, Bridget Riley, Diana Rigg and many, many more.

London in the Sixties

This exceptional volume brings together nearly 1,000 images representing the diversity and richness of the visual arts in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. 
At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna became an epicenter for new thought, increasingly running counter to the prevalent conservatism symbolized by the neo-classical facades of the buildings in the city’s Ringstrasse. During the time of the modernist movement led by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, and Koloman Moser, among others, a multidisciplinary environment emerged in which music, writing, and intellectual thought flourished, bringing different arts together in a “Gesamtkunstwerk” a total work of art.
Covering all artistic fields, from painting to photography, the Wiener Werkstatte and decorative arts, fashion and architecture of fin-de-siecle Vienna and including biographies for featured artists, Vienna 1900 Complete is an unprecedented compilation of richly colored images curated and authored in a single volume by three leading scholars of the period. 1,000 illustrations

Vienna 1900 Complete

Arts & Photography

Brandstätter, Christian

Gregori, Daniela

History & Criticism

This boxed 2-volume set includes the complete paintings of Vincent van Gogh, reproduced wherever possible in full-color. The paintings are arranged in chronological order, with occasional departures for technical or aesthetic reasons. The text, which is also chronologically ordered, traces van Gogh's own via dolorosa , filled with terrible loneliness and studded with fits of madness--the tragic life of an outsider, an isolated genius at odds with society.

Van Gogh

Walther, Ingo F.

Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH

Berlin, a haunting vision of the twentieth century’s first modern city, is a cultural history filled with 400 shockingly fresh and romantic photographs, paintings, and other images. In the brief years between the twentieth century’s two cataclysmic world wars, the modern metropolis was invented in Berlin. Life in Berlin was a cabaret, and Marlene Dietrich, Thomas Mann, Alfred Einstein, or Joseph Goebbels might be seated at the next table. The avant-garde thrived there. The mass media magnified the impact of everything from fads to political ideas. Subcultures and club cultures nurtured gender-bending fashions and lifestyles. Architects and designers struggled to free themselves from the past. In the background beat the new rhythms of urban experience: the coming and going of the latest planes and trains and automobiles, the clacking of typewriters in vast offices, the jazz band that never sleeps. Berlin: The Twenties is a book for history buffs, travelers, and lovers of modern art and design.

Berlin: The Twenties

Brandstetter, Christian

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

- Un tableau vivant et complet du tourbillon moderniste de Berlin des années 20: métropole des avants-garde. Les années 20, à Berlin, sous la République de Weimar, hantées par la catastrophe qui se prépare, sont synonymes d'invention plastique et littéraire en mème temps qu'elles explorent avec une intuition extraordinaire tous les moyens d'expression populaire, radios, cinémas, affiches et publications lumineuses, cabaret, comédie musicale, lunapark qui vont constituer les moyens de communication de masse, des totalitarismes à venir et de la société de consommation d'après guerre. ... Il suffit d'aligner quelques noms, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartield, Hannah Höch pour l'aventure Dada; Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Karl Blossfeldt pour le cinéma et la photographie; Mies van der Rohe, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky pour les grandes conquètes utopistes ou fonctionnelles de l'architecture, du design et de l'oeuvre d'art totale pour prendre la mesure de ces années de révolutions et de créations tous azimuts. ... Cet ouvrage les passe en revue, en décrit les apports, explique leur retentissements dans la société du XXe siècle et son avant-garde. ...

Berlin. Les années vingt: Art et culture 1918-1933

Hazan

Wien 1900: Kunst Design Architektur Mode

Brandstätter Verlag

Hide and seek - concealing and revealing. In her new works, Xenia Hausner creates a fictive reality, which she reinvents with surprising twists and turns. We find people teetering on the edge, always as risk of tripping on the loose stones of reality's absurdity, and we become observers of the eternal game of hide and seek when our idea of reality coincides with our experience. First nature and second nature, reflected nature, merge for a brief moment without any resistance.

Xenia Hausner: Hide And Seek (English and German Edition)

Hausner, Xenia

Aigner, Carl

Sykora, Katharina

Prestel Pub

Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

Individual Artists

Taschen America, LLC

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