Klimt's Women

Cologne; New Haven: DuMont; Yale University Press, 2000. Octavo in blue pictorial board in dust jacket of same illustration; illus. (some color); 256 pp., 32 cm. Fine copy in fine dust jacket; DJ is lightly edgeworn but there are no tears; o/w DJ is clean and bright; boards are clean and bright; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; edges of pages are clean; binding is tight and square. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300087969

In English. Contents: Gustav Klimt -- painter between the times / Gerbert Frodl -- Fin-de-siecle Vienna and the ambivalence of modernism / Heidemarie Uhl -- The Habsburg State and Gustav Klimt, scenes from a fruitful relationship / Jeroen Van Heerde -- Of sweet young things and femmes fatales. Gustav Klimt and women around 1900. A path to freedom / Regine Schmidt -- Gender asymmetries in Viennese moderninsm / Lisa Fischer -- "Alma, my Alma" -- Gustav Klimt and Alma Schindler / Hansjorg Krug -- Gustav Klimt and women's fashion / Angela Volker.Gustav Klimt and photography / Franz Eder -- Princesses without a history? Gustav Klimt and "the community of all who create and all who enjoy" / Tobias G. Natter -- Gustav Klimt: female portraits / Tobias G. Natter -- Portrait and pose. On the representational image of the "feminine" at the Fin de siecle / Monika Pessler and Thomas Trummer -- Klimts studies for the portrait paintings / Marian Bisanz-Prakken -- Judith / Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat -- The compositional concept of "The Kiss" / Hans Bisanz. The two-fold woman (water-snakes) / Neda Bei -- The three stages of life / Alessandra Comini.