In morbid colours
Subtitle: art and the idea of decadence in the Bohemian lands 1800-1914
By: Otto M. Urban
Contributors: Merhaut, Luboš, 1961-; Obecní dům (Prague, Czech Republic); Moravská galerie v Brně
Publisher: Arbor Vitae; Muncipal House; Arbor Vitae [in collaboration with] Moravian Gallery in Brno
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Prague?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9788086300849
Subjects: Decadence in art; Exhibitions; Devil in art; Demonology in art; Decadence (Literary movement); Czech Art; Czech literature; History and criticism; Czech Aesthetics
Other titles: In morbid colors; Decadence
Notes: Exhibition at the Municpal House, 15/11/2006-18/02/2007 and at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, 08/03-17/06/2007.

Translation of text: Barbara Day; translation of poetry: David Chirico.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-401) and index.
Table of contents: title: The space of Decadence  -- Otto M. Urban; title: On the radical wing of modernity: The concept of Decadence as the horizon in art and life at the end of the nineteenth century  -- Daniel Vojtěch; title: "A summit and abyss in one" : transformations of decadent coordinates in Czech literature at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries  -- Luboš Merhaut; title: In morbid colours: art and the idea of Decadence in the Bohemian lands 1880-1914 -- Otto M. Urban.; title: Illustrated catalogue; title: Sullen, debauched, morose --; title: The demon love --; title: Satanic hallucinations --; title: Purgatory of Death.