Physical Description
xviii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents
Emancipation. Adele's Vienna : poems and privilege ; The king ; Emancipated immigrants ; The wounded creator ; Arranged marriage ; The secession ; Klimt the seducer ; An innocent abroad ; "I want to get out" ; Adele's "Bohemian home" ; The empress ; "Degenerate women" ; Eyes wide shut ; The outsider ; The painted mosaic ; Klimt's women ; "Hugs from your Buddha" ; The good spirit
Love and betrayal. Degenerate art ; "You are peace" ; Unrequited love ; Marie Viktoria ; Maria and Luise ; Stubenbastei ; The housepainter from Austria ; With or without you ; The return of the native ; Love letters from a bride ; Work makes freedom ; Thunder at twilight ; Decent honorable people ; Gay marriage ; The Orient Express ; The autograph hunter ; Stealing beauty ; The last of the Bloch-Bauers ; Homecoming ; Führer ; Nazis in the family ; "Above the mob" ; The Viennese Cassandra ; Ferdinand in exile ; The Gutmanns ; The "blonde beast" ; Love letters from a murderer ; Ferdinand's legacy ; The uses of art ; Nelly ; The Immendorf Castle ; The child in the chapel ; The castle of the first Reichsmarschall ; The partisans ; The man without qualities ; The Nero decree ; Restitution ; Liberation ; Refugee ; Provenance
Atonement. Historical amnesia ; The children of Tantalus ; The heirs of history ; The library of theft ; The search for provenance ; "I can't afford for you to lose" ; How do you solve a problem like Maria? ; Klimt's stolen women ; A lost cause célèbre ; Diplomacy ; Family history ; Supreme judgment ; Arbitration ; Ciao Adele ; A friend from Old Vienna ; Patrimony ; Adele's final destiny ; The burden of history ; Art history ; Cultural property ; A reckoning.
ISBN
9780307265647
0307265641
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index.
Emancipation. Adele's Vienna : poems and privilege ; The king ; Emancipated immigrants ; The wounded creator ; Arranged marriage ; The secession ; Klimt the seducer ; An innocent abroad ; "I want to get out" ; Adele's "Bohemian home" ; The empress ; "Degenerate women" ; Eyes wide shut ; The outsider ; The painted mosaic ; Klimt's women ; "Hugs from your Buddha" ; The good spirit -- Love and betrayal. Degenerate art ; "You are peace" ; Unrequited love ; Marie Viktoria ; Maria and Luise ; Stubenbastei ; The housepainter from Austria ; With or without you ; The return of the native ; Love letters from a bride ; Work makes freedom ; Thunder at twilight ; Decent honorable people ; Gay marriage ; The Orient Express ; The autograph hunter ; Stealing beauty ; The last of the Bloch-Bauers ; Homecoming ; Führer ; Nazis in the family ; "Above the mob" ; The Viennese Cassandra ; Ferdinand in exile ; The Gutmanns ; The "blonde beast" ; Love letters from a murderer ; Ferdinand's legacy ; The uses of art ; Nelly ; The Immendorf Castle ; The child in the chapel ; The castle of the first Reichsmarschall ; The partisans ; The man without qualities ; The Nero decree ; Restitution ; Liberation ; Refugee ; Provenance -- Atonement. Historical amnesia ; The children of Tantalus ; The heirs of history ; The library of theft ; The search for provenance ; "I can't afford for you to lose" ; How do you solve a problem like Maria? ; Klimt's stolen women ; A lost cause célèbre ; Diplomacy ; Family history ; Supreme judgment ; Arbitration ; Ciao Adele ; A friend from Old Vienna ; Patrimony ; Adele's final destiny ; The burden of history ; Art history ; Cultural property ; A reckoning.
