Kiss Off?

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Is it passion or resistance? "Don't look at him, look at her," counsels art historian Dr. James Fox as he presents his alternative interpretation of Gustav Klimt's famous The Kiss. "Maybe I'm wrong," he says, "but if that's a kiss, it isn't very mutual." And what he sees in this painting, the star of a 1908 art exhibition in honor of Emperor Franz Josef's diamond jubilee, is a metaphor for the darkness that was beginning to roil just beneath the tranquil, beautiful surface of life in Vienna, capital of the great and vast Habsburg Empire (story, video): http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151009-the-dark-side-of-the-kiss