Gustav Klimt and Japanese Art in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

This probing and innovative monograph, based on an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach, traces the trajectory of the Japanese influence on Klimt's heterogeneous and idiosyncratic oeuvre.Placing Klimt's experimentations with Japanese stimuli in a broad historical and cultural context, it unfolds a vibrant picture of the unprecedented creative dialogue and synthesis of Japanese models by on...