{"product_id":"passionate-spirit-by-cate-haste","title":"Passionate Spirit - By Cate Haste","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life of an extraordinary artist and intellect- the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in history\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn into the dying days of the Habsburg Empire, Alma Mahler was at the epicentre of fin de si cle Vienna's artistic and intellectual life. A talented composer in her own right, she was open, generous, remarkably creative, curious, challenging and zealous in her pursuit of love. Artists, architects, musicians and writers jostled to join her coterie. Gustav Mahler was her first husband; Gustav Klimt her first kiss.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe great men who were drawn into Alma's wake would be indelibly touched by her power and brilliance- from her second husband Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and modernist architecture, to the Expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka and her last husband, writer Franz Werfel. But her life was inflected by tragedy, and the love, support and inspiration that Alma gave to the men she loved came at the heavy price of her own artistic fulfilment. As the turmoil of her century uprooted her from her homeland and she fled Austria first for occupied France and then America, it would be her love of music alone that sustained her through a series of great losses.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing extensively on hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, Cate Haste illuminates the passionate spirit of one of history's most complex and charismatic muses, a modern woman with an elemental vitality that could scarcely be contained by her century o who will live forever in the art she created and inspired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Information:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCategory: Fashion, History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 244 x 163mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #f40e0e;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: Remaindered books or remainders\u003c\/strong\u003e are printed books that are over stocks and are sold at reduced prices. Remainder books are sometimes marked by the publisher or slightly damaged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cate Haste","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40342678700074,"sku":"9781408878323","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2811\/3956\/products\/1000pxx1000px_65_20a33d7b-9b40-4f49-bf9b-45c8b6c1f2af.jpg?v=1660185338","url":"https:\/\/puzzlesrusmore.au\/products\/passionate-spirit-by-cate-haste","provider":"booksrusandmore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}