“Book Descriptions: 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” DRIVE