In Morbid Colours: Art and the Idea of Decadence by Otto M. Urban- High Grade
In Morbid Colours: Art and the Idea of Decadence by Otto M. Urban- High Grade
In Morbid Colours: Art and the Idea of Decadence by Otto M. Urban 2009
Book Condition: Fine - Sharp tight bright copy.
Authors: Otto M. Urban
Cover Artist: Jaroslav Panuska
Publisher: Arbor Vitae
Location: Prague
Date: 2009
ISBN: 8-086300846
Features: Art Catalogue. Summary: Born from a bizarre, fin-de-sicle amalgam of dandyism, occultism and Symbolism, Decadence moved the Romantic imagination firmly indoors, into a morbid, mauve-hued interior with Redon on the walls and Poe on the bookshelves. Czech art was well suited to express the Decadent temperament, and In Morbid Colours reveals, for the first time, the incredible cornucopia of fantastical, proto-Surrealist art produced under this rubric between 1880 and 1914. Full of superb color illustrations, it details the work of artists such as Frantisek Bilek, Karel Hlavcek, Frantisek Kavan, Benes Knpfer, Gabriel Max, Alfons Mucha, Max Pirner, Jan Preisler, Jakub Schikaneder, Hanus Schwaiger, Max Svabinsky and Josef Vchal, as well as artists with ties to Czech art such as Alfred Kubin, August Brmse and Richard Teschner.
HCS8766-1
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