<BIRTH OF THE MODERN>: 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.
RONALD S. LAUDER
Preface
RENIEE PRICE
Foreword
JILL LLOYD AND CHRISTIAN NITT-DORRING
Introduction
PHILIPP BLOH
Rebelling in a World of Facades
Style and Identity in Vienna around 1900
JEAN CLAIR
A Skeptical Modernity
CHRISTIAN WITT-DORRING
Individuality in Viennese Modern Design
around 1900
Pro and Con
JILL LLOYD
Feminists and Femme Fatales
Representing Women in Turn-of-the Century Vienna
GEOFFREY HONES
Literature and Identity in Vienna 1900
Robert Musil, Hugo yon Hofmannsthal, and Arthur Schnitzler
CLAUDE CERNUSCHI
Depth and Surface, Will and Representation
Egon Schiele and Arthur Schopenhauer
PHILIPP BLOM
Freud's Lederhosen
Three Biographical Variations on the Theme
"Who Was a Jew in HaBsburg Vienna?"
CHRISTIAN NEIKOP
Ver Sacrum (1898-1903)
The Printed Face of the Vienna Secession
ALESSANDRA COMINI
National Idols, Private Identities
Music and Musicians in Imperial Vienna
Plates
Index
Photograph and Copyright Credits