Vienna, Vienna : The golden age, 1815-1914 / by William M. Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, William M., 1936-

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Vienna, Vienna. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Vienna (Austria)--History.

Vienna (Austria).

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Physical Description:

332, [4] pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc.,

Place of Publication:

New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, [1981]

Contents:

The Golden Age of Vienna

Biedermeier, Middle-Class Baroque 1815-1848

Album of the Era. The heritage of the baroque; Metternich's Austria; Biedermeier: a life style; Bureaucracy: basis of society; Army life; Romantic realism; The decorative arts; Grillparzer and the bittersweet theater of the bourgeoisie; Eroica ...; Great music: the marvelous and the unfinished; Dance music: the waltz; The birth of the railway; Forty-eight

The Ringstrasse years: Franz Joseph and the Culture of Facades 1848-1890. Album of the era; The emperor as model; A Biedermeier monarch; The cult of royalty; Mayerling: the tragedy; Prone to disaster; The Ring, or the building of an imperial city; The great exposition; Frescos in Ringstrasse buildings; Monuments: historical memories made visible; Museums: the sanctification of art; Makart: the carnival of the fine arts; Music, highbrow and popular; Operetta: a popular dream; The Blue Danube; All the world's a stage; Pomp and circumstance; Sepulchral marble; Liberal industrialization

Years of Paradox 1890-1914. Album of the era; Fin de siècle Vienna; Happy isle; The gay apocalypse; The Viennese café; Otto Wagner: the project for a metropolis; Impressionism and the depiction of daily life; The golden art of Gustav Klimt; The Secession; The Secessionist picture postcard; "Wiener Werkstätte" taste; "Ver Sacrm"; The decorated architecture of the new Vienna; Woman, the eternal goddess; The "young" rebels; Harmony and atonality; Freud: a new dimension; Philosophic scientists and scientific philosophers; The intellectuals of Young Vienna; Finis Austriae; The naked truth; A(ustria) E(rit) I(n) O(rbe) U(ltima): the apocalypse

A century of Vienna; Vienna, an urban history

Celebrated Viennese

Viennese on the Viennese.

Notes:

Originally published in Italian by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan in 1980 under title Vienna, Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references (page 328) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0517545551 (cloth) :

OCLC:

7551526