Autorentext

Christian Brandstatter is a Viennese author, curator and publisher. Among his previous books is Wonderful Wiener Werkstatte, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Klappentext
Vienna was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting-pot of radical fresh ideas and concepts in every field art, architecture, literature, music, politics, journalism and theatre. This title features 25 essays on the key movements and figures of the era.

Inhalt
Introduction by Rainer Metzger; Art and the Decorative Arts: Jugendtsil and Symbolism in Vienna 1900; The Secession from 1897 - 1918; Ver Sacrum; Graphic Design and Book Art; Gustav Klimt; The Klimt Group; Richard Gerstl; Oskar Kokoschka; Egon Schiele; The Wiener Werkstatte; Viennese Furniture; Fashion in Vienna around 1900; Photography; Architecture - Otto Wagner; The Wagner School; Joseph Maria Olbrich; Josef Hoffmann; Adolf Loos; Culture and Society - Theatre and Cabaret; the Literary Fin de Siecle; the Viennese Coffee House; Viennese Music; Philosophy and Science; the Secrets of Dreams - the development of psychoanalysis.