A kingdom not of this world
Subtitle: Wagner, the arts, and utopian visions in fin-de-siècle Vienna
By: Kevin C. Karnes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199957927
Subjects: Wiener Secession; Music; Austrian Art; Intellectual life; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fin-de-siècle Vienna and the utopian imagination; title: Max Klinger, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the dream of a third kingdom; title: "All of Vienna has become secessionistic" : longings of an organization; title: Dreams of transcendence, fantasies of control : Gustav Klimt; title: The sacred spring of Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander Zemlinsky; title: Gustav Mahler and the promise of return; title: Epilogue. Endings and beginnings.