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Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture / Carl E. Schorske.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schorske, Carl E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918.
- Klimt, Gustav.
- Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980.
- Kokoschka, Oskar.
- Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Austria--Politics and government--1867-1918.
- Austria.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Social Conditions.
- Medical Subjects:
- History.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Social Conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First Vintage book edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1981.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time; a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.
- Contents:
- Politics and the psyche: Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal
- The Ringstrasse, its critics, and the birth of urban modernism
- Politics in a new key: an Austrian trio
- Politics and patricide in Freud's Interpretation of dreams
- Gustav Klimt: painting and the crisis of the liberal ego
- The transformation of the garden
- Explosion in the garden: Kokoschka and Schoenberg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1981.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schorske, Carl E. Fin-de-siècle Vienna.
- ISBN:
- 9780307814517
- 0307814513
- Publisher Number:
- 99983935070
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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