Author: Charles, Victoria (and) Klaus Carl
Title: The Viennese Secession
Description: New York, Parkstone International, 2011. Hardcover. Matte color-printed boards. There is a matching dust jacket with white text down a gold spine. Pages: (4), 5-199. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Symbol of a forecasted revolution, the Viennese Secession possesses within itself the dissidence of about twenty talented artists against the conservative academicism which petrified Vienna and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time. Influenced by the Art Nouveau, the Secession, created in 1897 by Klimt, Moll and Hoffmann, was not an anonymous artistic revolution among so many others. Dissenting in essence, defining itself as an 'art total,' without any political or commercial constraint, this movement resembles more the philosophy that the ideological turmoil affected the craftsmen, architects, graphic artists and designers. Turning aside from the established art to dive into the generous and decorative shapes of Flora and the other nymphs, the artists open themselves to an estheticism of which erotic power could only offend the bourgeoisie of the time.." Contents are as follows: Vienna in the second half of the 19th century -- The World Fair of 1889 -- Art in England at the end of the century -- Art on the continent at the end of the century -- The precursors of the Viennes secession in Munich and Berlin -- Munich -- Berlin -- The Viennese Secession -- Vienna at the turn of the century -- The Kunstlerhaus -- The Secession I -- The Ver Sacrum magazine -- The Secession II -- The exhibition centre of the Viennese Secession -- The Beethoven frieze -- The Secession III -- Artists of the Viennese Secession -- Gustav Klimt -- Koloman Moser -- Alfred Roller -- Egon Schiele -- Other Viennese artists -- Wiener Werkstatte -- The most important artists of the Wiener Werkstatte -- Architecture in the second half of the 19th century. England and Belgium -- France -- Austria. VG+/VG+ .

Keywords: European Art ; the Viennese Secession ; ; General Art - European


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