Vienna fin de siècle. Politica e cultura

A landmark book from one of the original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political & social disintegration so much of modern art & thought was born.

This edition contains:

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Politics & the psyche: Schnitzler & Hoffmannsthal

The Ringstrasse, its critics & the birth of urban modernism

Politics in a new key: an Austrian trio

Politics & patricide in Freud's Interpretation of dreams

Gustav Klimt: painting & the crisis of the liberal ego

The transformation of the garden

Explosion in the garden: Kokoschka & Schoenberg

Index