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Klimt (Phaidon Colour Library) (Paperback)

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd (Jun 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0714833770
ISBN-13: 978-0714833774
Product Dimensions: 30 x 22.4 x 0.8 cm

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is one of the most popular artists of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. A founding member of the Viennese Secession and a leader of the Art Nouveau movement, Klimt was an innovator who achieved success with large decorative schemes as well as smaller portraits and paintings. He is admired for his sensuous images of women and for his original vision, producing images such as "Love", "The Three Ages of Man" and "The Kiss".

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Federico Zeri, an eminent art historian and critic, was vice president of the National Council for Cultural and Environmental Treasures and was decorated with the Legion of Honor by the French Government. He passed away in 1998. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Color Reproductions!!, 27 Oct 1998

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Klimt is my favorite artist and yet it is so difficult to find quality reproductions of his works; usually the color is faded or the gold leaf comes out a sickly yellow!! This book has beautiful reproductions and concise and informative explanations next to each painting as well as an interesting biography on Klimt. I highly recommend this book for a clear, concise overview.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great reproductions of the paintings, less satisfactory text., 15 Jan 2008

By	Bernard Davis "Bernard Davis" (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Klimt (Big Art) (Hardcover)

Christmas presents - how I love them! This year Miss Santa Claus (it is now an equal opportunities position) brought me this fine book.

The great strength of the book is its many fine reproductions of Klimt's paintings, there must be over 100, plus drawings and posters. We can follow the evolution of the artists style through these: from early highly proficient drawings and neo-classically styled paintings to his mature style in which he relishes surface texture and the female form.

Gottfried Fliedl's take on the artist in the text is less successful. His school of art criticism does not comment on the art in itself, it sees it mainly as the outworking of socio-political forces and philosophical ideas. When considering an artist like Klimt I cannot but help think that this misses out so much that is important.

Fliedl is right to concentrate on Klimt's depiction of the feminine, but due to his interpretive tunnel vision he misses much that is of importance, indeed he misses much of Klimt's unique vision and gift to art. So many things seem to be missed by Fliedl's method of analysis: sympathy, sensitivity, humanity, and empathy.

To give an example: one of the revolutionary aspects of Klimt's art was the naturalistic and sympathetic way he depicted women. His nudes are quite different from those before them. They are not high class pornography. There is nothing of a man's idealisation and objectification of the female form for his own amusement. Instead in many paintings Klimt depicts the female form in a natural and unaffected way, even if these depictions are within highly stylised compositions. Fliedl gathers many of the best of these paintings in a chapter entitled Hope, after the title of a painting of a pregnant women. Then rather than discuss the paintings he spends his time on a pseudo-political rant about the oppression of female models.

One chapter contains a selection of Klimt's drawings that are described as `erotic' here, for `erotic' read pornographic. Klimt's usual portraits of the female form may be said to be erotic in the best sense of the word, these voyeuristic drawings come across as second rate by comparison. Rich appreciation of the feminine being replaced by cheap titillation.

Klimt's landscape paintings are covered in two chapters, they show the same fascination with surface detail that his other paintings do, but there is a sense that there simply isn't the same richness as in his pictures containing figures.

Overall this is a book well worth buying due to the quality, number and variety of the reproductions of Klimt`s paintings.

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