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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Pamela KortSophie LillieGeorg Gaugusch
出版Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, 2007
主題Art / EuropeanArt / Individual Artists / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / MonographsArt / Subjects & Themes / Portraits
ISBN19317941629781931794169
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-5E0AQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Few paintings have captured the public's imagination as thoroughly as Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a prominent Viennese sugar manufacturer. The suggestive, gold-leafed painting not only rendered Bloch-Bauer's irresistible beauty and sensuality; its intricate ornamentation and exotic motifs heralded the dawn of Modernity and a culture intent on radically forging a new identity. With this painting, Klimt created a secular icon that would come to stand for the aspirations of a whole generation in fin-de-siècle Vienna.
But as synonymous as this famous model's likeness has become with Vienna's Golden Age, the real Adele Bloch-Bauer remained somewhat shielded from the public eye. Filled with well-chosen details, documentary photographs and historically related artworks, this singular, scholarly study attempts to reveal and honor the remarkable life and legacy of Adele Bloch-Bauer and her husband, Ferdinand Bloch, and their patronage of one of Austria's most radical forebears of Modernity.