Gustav Klimt
Subtitle: the Beethoven frieze and the controversy over the freedom of art
By: edited by Stephan Koja ; with texts by Stephan Koja ... [et al.].
Contributors: Koja, Stephan.; Fundación Juan March.
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783791337579
Subjects: Klimt, Gustav, -- 1862-1918. -- Exhibitions; Wiener Secession -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Beethoven frieze and the controversy over the freedom of art
Notes: "This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "La destrucción creadora. Gustav Klimt, el Friso de Beethoven y la lucha por la libertad del arte" held at the Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Oct. 6, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007".--Colophon.

Issued also in German and Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gustav Klimt's faculty paintings and the crisis of the liberal ego / Carl E. Schorske; title: Klimt's studies for the faculty paintings Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence / Alice Strobl; title: "...just about the nastiest women I have ever seen..." Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze: evolution and programme / Stephan Koja; title: Reflections on the Beethoven Frieze and its relation to the work of Gustav Klimt / Franz A. J. Szabo; title: The technique and conservation of the Beethoven Frieze / Manfred Koller; title: Biography / Verena Perlhefter; title: The Klimt controversy in contemporary documents.