In Morbid Colours: Art and The Idea of Decadence in The Bohemian Lands 1880-1914
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- Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2009
Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2009. First Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's original decorated paper covered boards. 409pp.; [3]. Very light wear to corners and spne ends, strong and bright; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout. A near fine copy.
An academic and focussed analysis of the rise to ascendancy of Czech art during the height of the Decadent period, and what it was about the lush, heavy, overspiced aesthetic that dovetailed so neatly with Czech artistic preoccupations and requirements. Featuring works from a multitude of artists including Frantisek Bilek, Josef Vachal, Preidler, Mucha, and an army of others blending languid dandyism and a penchant for velvet and heavy drapes with addiction, obsession, the occult and the shadowy unknown.
An academic and focussed analysis of the rise to ascendancy of Czech art during the height of the Decadent period, and what it was about the lush, heavy, overspiced aesthetic that dovetailed so neatly with Czech artistic preoccupations and requirements. Featuring works from a multitude of artists including Frantisek Bilek, Josef Vachal, Preidler, Mucha, and an army of others blending languid dandyism and a penchant for velvet and heavy drapes with addiction, obsession, the occult and the shadowy unknown.