Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900

by Gemma Blackshaw

Book Overview

An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-si?cleVienna used innovative portraiture to define their identity

During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-si?cleVienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857095618
• ISBN13: 9781857095616
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: National Gallery London
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 11.8"