num_pages: 378
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-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
titlecomplete: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
genres: Architecture, History, Cultural, Philosophy, Cities, European History, Art History, Nonfiction, Art, Politics
ratings_count: 1458
places: Austria, Vienna
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History (Hardcover)
publisher: Vintage