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Dates: during 2005-2005
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Reproductions of Gustav Klimt??s “Pear Tree”—often referred to as the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s one great painting—flap on the banners outside of the Fogg, attempting to lure visitors into the Busch-Reisinger’s unique exhibit, “‘As though my body were naught but ciphers:’ Crises of Representation in Fin-de Siècle Vienna.” The exhibit’s forty pieces are on display in a single room...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exhibit Complements Art Core | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

Another subtle but intriguing text-cum-visual art trick is the parallel placement of Klimt??s “Pear Tree” and a decorated, meter-long text box featuring another Hofmannsthal quote designed to emphasize the importance of images and words and how they interact with each other...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exhibit Complements Art Core | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...original, one of Klimt??s infamous “faculty paintings” scorned by the very faculty that commissioned them, was destroyed in 1945 by retreating Nazis to keep it from falling into enemy hands. A digitized photograph of the original mural from the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna is the source of the Busch-Reisinger’s photo mural. The reproduction, about the same size as Klimt??s original, is a unique approximation of Klimt??s vision of grandeur...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exhibit Complements Art Core | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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