Birth Of The Modern Style And Identity In Vienna 1900
Birth Of The Modern Style And Identity In Vienna 1900
$85.00
Lloyd, Jill. + Christian Witt-Dorring and others.
Cl. Prestel 2011
SKU S02962
Vienna in 1900 was home to a thriving arts and intellectual culture that included many important thinkers and a substantial group of prominent artists, including the founder of the Secession Gustav Klimt. A common thread throughout music and the fine and decorative arts was the redefining of individual identity for the modern age, as the search for a specifically modern Viennese sense of self prompted a dialogue about ornamentation and inner truth in the arts of the age.
Edited by distinguished curators Christian Witt-Dörring and Jill Lloyd, Birth of the Modern explores new attitudes—particularly those toward gender and sexuality—that surfaced in Viennese culture in the early twentieth century.
288 pp. Cl. Many color + b/w illus.
