Lady in Gold
Subtitle: the extraordinary tale of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781101873120
Notes: One of the Best Books of the Year: The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the Marfield National Award for Arts Writing. Winner of a California Book Award.
Table of contents: title: Emancipation.; title: Adele's Vienna : poems and privilege; title: The king; title: Emancipated immigrants; title: The wounded creator; title: Arranged marriage; title: The secession; title: Klimt the seducer; title: An innocent abroad; title: "I want to get out"; title: Adele's "Bohemian home"; title: The empress; title: "Degenerate women"; title: Eyes wide shut; title: The outsider; title: The painted mosaic; title: Klimt's women; title: "Hugs from your Buddha"; title: The good spirit; title: Love and betrayal.; title: Degenerate art; title: "You are peace"; title: Unrequited love; title: Marie Viktoria; title: Maria and Luise; title: Stubenbastei; title: The housepainter from Austria; title: With or without you; title: The return of the native; title: Love letters from a bride; title: Work makes freedom; title: Thunder at twilight; title: Decent honorable people; title: Gay marriage; title: The Orient Express; title: The autograph hunter; title: Stealing beauty; title: The last of the Bloch-Bauers; title: Homecoming; title: Führer; title: Nazis in the family; title: "Above the mob"; title: The Viennese Cassandra; title: Ferdinand in exile; title: The Gutmanns; title: The "blonde beast"; title: Love letters from a murderer; title: Ferdinand's legacy; title: The uses of art; title: Nelly; title: The Immendorf Castle; title: The child in the chapel; title: The castle of the first Reichsmarschall; title: The partisans; title: The man without qualities; title: The Nero decree; title: Restitution; title: Liberation; title: Refugee; title: Provenance; title: Atonement.; title: Historical amnesia; title: The children of Tantalus; title: The heirs of history; title: The library of theft; title: The search for provenance; title: "I can't afford for you to lose"; title: How do you solve a problem like Maria?; title: Klimt's stolen women; title: A lost cause célèbre; title: Diplomacy; title: Family history; title: Supreme judgment; title: Arbitration; title: Ciao Adele; title: A friend from Old Vienna; title: Patrimony; title: Adele's final destiny; title: The burden of history; title: Art history; title: Cultural property; title: A reckoning