Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture / Carl E. Schorske.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schorske, Carl E., author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

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.