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Jugend und Volk (Vienna and Munich) for the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Published 1971. Paperback, 29 pp. text, 34 pp. of plates (49 plates, some in color), 6 pp. of advertisements; 25 cm; illustrated in color and black-and-white; cover design by Heimo Lauth after Gustav Klimt's Pallas Athene. Foreword by Sir Thomas Monnington, President of the Royal Academy; introduction by Georg Eisler.
In Good condition. Glossy illustrated cream card covers, Klimt's Pallas Athene to front, Austrian National Tourist Office advertisement to rear. Light bumping increasing toward edges and corners, a few tiny nicks to top edge; thin clear plastic coating peeling along fore edge, with bubbling along spine and rear cover. Glued binding starting to pull in a few places and text block beginning to separate from rear cover, but all pages present and attached. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Laid in: newspaper clipping dated Saturday-Sunday, October 17-18, 1970, Michael Gibson's "Paris Art" review of Edward Kienholz's tableaux at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, with two photographs; toned, torn along left edge, folded. Catalog of the Royal Academy's 1971 exhibition of the Wiener Secession, a cross-section of members' work from the association's founding in 1897 to 1970. A history of the Secession covers the 1897 break from the established artists' association, Olbrich's building with its motto "To each century its art, to art its freedom," the 1900 exhibition that introduced Mackintosh to Vienna, and the departure of the Klimt group in 1905. Nicolas Powell of the British Council traces the Secession's British connections, from Whistler, Brangwyn and the Mackintosh-Macdonald room to Moore, Chadwick and the 1970 showing of Bacon and Riley, with a list of British exhibitors at the early Secession exhibitions. The checklist gives medium, dimensions and lender for each work. Plates reproduce Klimt's Pallas Athene, Koloman Moser's poster for the XIIIth exhibition, Adolf Bohm's poster for the XVth, and work by Schiele, Czeschka and Rudolf von Alt. Advertisements include the Viennese art dealer Michael Pabst and the revived Ver Sacrum, edited by Hilde Spiel, Otto Breicha and Georg Eisler.