Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
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Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, written by American cultural historian Carl E. Schorske
and published by Knopf
in 1980, won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
. It has been described as a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.
Partly reconstructed from Schorske's articles in the American Historical Review
, the book is structured as seven themed but interlocking chapters considering the interrelationships between key artists with the development of psychoanalysis and what was, at the time, seen as an 'end of history'.
The book is lavishly illustrated with both colour and black-and-white reproductions of key artworks, helpfully referenced from the text which explains their relevance to the themes in question.
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and serves as the model for a fictional book ("Random Notes", later edited and renamed Fin de Siecle) written by one of the main characters, Arnauld Esterhazy.
Carl E. Schorske
Carl Emil Schorske is an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture , which remains highly significant to modern European intellectual history...
and published by Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf
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in 1980, won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in another category.-1960s:...
. It has been described as a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.
Partly reconstructed from Schorske's articles in the American Historical Review
American Historical Review
The American Historical Review is the official publication of the American Historical Association, established in 1895 "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research." It targets readers...
, the book is structured as seven themed but interlocking chapters considering the interrelationships between key artists with the development of psychoanalysis and what was, at the time, seen as an 'end of history'.
The book is lavishly illustrated with both colour and black-and-white reproductions of key artworks, helpfully referenced from the text which explains their relevance to the themes in question.
Popular culture
Schorske's work was one of the major references for Seldon Edwards' The Little Book,
and serves as the model for a fictional book ("Random Notes", later edited and renamed Fin de Siecle) written by one of the main characters, Arnauld Esterhazy.