Art in Vienna 1898-1918
Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries
$110.31
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2015
Summary
The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum, and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage. Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their Contemporaries, now published in its 4th edition, brilliantly tra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780714868783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0714868787 |
| Author: | Peter Vergo |
| Publisher: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 2.12kg |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 250mm x 290mm |
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Critics Review
“Handsomely reproduces some of the work that so shocked the conservative Viennese public.“—Observer
“The continuing value of this seminal title is demonstrated by its publication as a fourth edition.“—Library Journal
”[T]he go-to volume for the artists of the Vienna Secession.“—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Peter Vergo
Peter Vergo is a leading expert on modern Russian, German and Austrian art, and the recipient of the Golden Order of Merit, bestowed by the Republic of Austria for services to Austrian art. His other publications include Kandinsky: Complete Writings and Twentieth-Century German Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. His two books about the relationship between art and music, That Divine Order and The Music of Painting, were published by Phaidon in 2005 and 2010. Vergo is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex.
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