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• ISBN: 9780307265647
• Physical Description: xviii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Emancipation -- Adele's Vienna: Poems and Privilege 3 -- King 7 -- Emancipated Immigrants 10 -- Wounded Creator 13 -- Arranged Marriage 17 -- Secession 23 -- Klimt the Seducer 26 -- An Innocent Abroad 30 -- "I Want to Get Out" 35 -- Adele's "Bohemian Home" 41 -- Empress 45 -- "Degenerate Women" 46 -- Eyes Wide Shut 50 -- Outsider 55 -- Painted Mosaic 58 -- Klimt's Women 61 -- "Hugs from Your Buddha" 66 -- Good Spirit 69 -- Part 2 Love and Betrayal -- Degenerate Art 75 -- "You Are Peace" 77 -- Unrequited Love 81 -- Marie Viktoria 84 -- Maria and Luise 88 -- Stubenbastei 95 -- Housepainter from Austria 99 -- With or Without You 100 -- Return of the Native 106 -- Love Letters from a Bride 114 -- Work Makes Freedom 122 -- Thunder at Twilight 128 -- Decent Honorable People 134 -- Gay Marriage 137 -- Orient Express 137 -- Autograph Hunter 139 -- Stealing Beauty 142 -- Last of the Bloch-Bauers 146 -- Homecoming 147 -- Führer 150 -- Nazis in the Family 152 -- "Above the Mob" 155 -- Viennese Cassandra 160 -- Ferdinand in Exile 163 -- Gutmanns 164 -- "Blonde Beast" 168 -- Love Letters from a Murderer 172 -- Ferdinand's Legacy 175 -- Uses of Art 176 -- Nelly 179 -- Immendorf Castle 183 -- Child in the Chapel 185 -- Castle of the First Reichsmarschall 187 -- Partisans 190 -- Man Without Qualities 192 -- Nero Decree 193 -- Restitution 198 -- Liberation 199 -- Refugee 205 -- Provenance 208 -- Part 3 Atonement -- Historical Amnesia 213 -- Children of Tantalus 220 -- Heirs of History 225 -- Library of Theft 228 -- Search for Provenance 230 -- "I Can't Afford for You to Lose" 235 -- How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria? 236 -- Klimt's Stolen Women 237 -- A Lost Cause Celebre 239 -- Diplomacy 241 -- Family History 243 -- Supreme Judgment 246 -- Arbitration 250 -- Ciao Adele 254 -- A Friend from Old Vienna 256 -- Patrimony 261 -- Adele's Final Destiny 268 -- Burden of History 272 -- Art History 276 -- Cultural Property 285 -- A Reckoning 289.

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Subject:

Bloch-Bauer, Adele, 1881-1925 > Portraits.
Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918. Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

Genre:

Portraits.