Vienna: The Image Of A Culture In Decline
Edition: reprint of the 1938 Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: worn/faded, no tears. The hardcover binding solid and intact with minimal visible wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings.
A landmark work of cultural history, Vienna: The Image of a Culture in Decline presents a richly textured portrait of the Habsburg capital at its glittering, decadent zenith in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Edward Crankshaw chronicles the collision of brilliance and dysfunction within Viennese society — a world that simultaneously produced Freud, Mahler, Klimt, and Wittgenstein while its political and imperial foundations crumbled beneath it. With the authority of a seasoned scholar and the prose of a gifted essayist, Crankshaw illustrates how the very tensions and contradictions of fin-de-siècle Vienna gave birth to the ideas and art forms that would define modernity. The result is an elegant, penetrating account of a civilisation at its most creative and most fragile — a city whose decline cast a long shadow over the entire twentieth century.
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Edition: reprint of the 1938 Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: worn/faded, no tears. The hardcover binding solid and intact with minimal visible wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings.
A landmark work of cultural history, Vienna: The Image of a Culture in Decline presents a richly textured portrait of the Habsburg capital at its glittering, decadent zenith in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Edward Crankshaw chronicles the collision of brilliance and dysfunction within Viennese society — a world that simultaneously produced Freud, Mahler, Klimt, and Wittgenstein while its political and imperial foundations crumbled beneath it. With the authority of a seasoned scholar and the prose of a gifted essayist, Crankshaw illustrates how the very tensions and contradictions of fin-de-siècle Vienna gave birth to the ideas and art forms that would define modernity. The result is an elegant, penetrating account of a civilisation at its most creative and most fragile — a city whose decline cast a long shadow over the entire twentieth century.
