num_pages: 411
description: 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 &amp; social disintegration so much of modern art &amp; thought was born.This edition contains:IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPolitics &amp; the psyche: Schnitzler &amp; HoffmannsthalThe Ringstrasse, its critics &amp; the birth of urban modernismPolitics in a new key: an Austrian trioPolitics &amp; patricide in Freud's Interpretation of dreamsGustav Klimt: painting &amp; the crisis of the liberal egoThe transformation of the garden Explosion in the garden: Kokoschka &amp; SchoenbergIndex
language: English
title: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
titlecomplete: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
genres: Cultural, Art History, Politics, Cities, Philosophy, European History, Nonfiction, Architecture, Art, History
ratings_count: 1459
places: Vienna, Austria
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History (Hardcover)
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (NY)