Gustav Klimt and Medicine: The Flow of Life - Hardcover

$65.00

Gustav Klimt and Medicine: The Flow of Life - Hardcover

Name: Gustav Klimt and Medicine: The Flow of Life - Hardcover
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9783819500145
Price: 65.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

by Tobias G. Natter , Christiane Druml , Markus Müller

$65.00

Book Overview

Taking Klimt's lost painting Medicine as a starting point, this authoritative volume examines the relationship between art, medicine, and modern thought in Vienna around 1900.

When Gustav Klimt unveiled Medicine in 1901, the work sparked outrage by challenging conventional ideas about science, progress, and the human condition, becoming one of the defining cultural controversies of its time. Withdrawn by the artist and destroyed during World War II, Medicine remains one of the most fascinating lost masterpieces of modern art.

Through paintings, drawings, archival photographs, and restored imagery, this volume reconstructs the history, meaning, and legacy of the work while placing it within the intellectual ferment of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Essays explore the connections between art, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, evolutionary theory, and modern medical science.

Leading scholars reveal Klimt's engagement with the ideas reshaping his era, in particular microscopical cell examination, Darwinian concepts of human evolution, and the discovery of the unconscious. Reproductions of related masterpieces highlight the themes of birth and death, sexuality, consciousness and transformation.

Documents in unprecedented detail the impact of Gustav Klimt's painting, Medicine.
Authors are experts in the field of art history, and on medicine and cultural studies
Sheds light on the creative milieu of the time as well as Klimt's allegories of life
Richly illustrated with Klimt's artworks, essays are interspersed with plate sections
Ideal for readers interested in the intersections of art, medicine, and philosophy

Essential reading for Klimt enthusiasts, this volume is a compelling new perspective on Klimt's lost masterpiece and its enduring relevance.

ISBN	9783819500145
Author	Tobias G. Natter , Christiane Druml , Markus Müller
Publisher	Prestel Publishing
Genre	Arts
Format	Hardcover
Published	September 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	240
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print