Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-393) and index.
Contents
Vienna around 1900: the duration of denial -- Art and design : Jugendstil and symbolism -- The secession -- Ver sacrum -- Graphic art and book design -- Gustav Klimt -- The Klimt group -- Richard Gerstl -- Oskar Kokoschka -- Egon Schiele -- The Wiener Werkstätte -- Furniture -- Fashion and society : the artist-designed dress -- Photography -- Architecture: Otto Wagner -- The Wagner school -- Joseph Maria Olbrich -- Josef Hoffmann -- Adolf Loos -- Civilization and society: Theater and cabaret -- A "romanticism of the nerves" : the literary fin de siècle -- The coffeehouse : a hub of literary activity -- Music -- Philosophy and science -- The secret of dreams : on the development of psychoanalysis.