Gustav Klimt Painting, Design and Modern Life
Natter, Tobias G & Grunenberg, Christoph. Editors
£20.00
Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life. Edited by Tobias G. Natter & Christoph Grunenberg. Published by Tate Publishing, 2008, for the exhibition at Tate Liverpool 30th May - 31st August 2008. 4to (approx 11 ¾”H x 9 ¼”W). 256pp. Paperback. No dust jacket (as issued). Comprehensive book detailing Klimt's life and works, published to coincide with the Tate Liverpool Gallery's exhibition in 2008. "Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) remains one of the most popular and influential artists of the modern period. His ornate, sensual paintings, often charged with eroticism and embellished with gold, have been endlessly reproduced and are familiar to many who know little of the artist who created them. Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design & Modern Life explores the life and work of this unique and intriguing figure, who was at the epicentre of the cultural renaissance that swept Vienna at the turn of the last century". Beautiful publication full of colour & b/w photographs of Klimt, his patrons, colleagues and their works. Book condition is very good - as new.