Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
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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[1], won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[2] 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.[3]
Partly reconstructed from Schorske's articles in the American Historical Review, the book is structured as seven themed but interlocking chapters considering the interelationships between key artists with the development of phsychoanalysis 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.
[edit] Popular culture
Schorske's work was one of the major references for Seldon Edwards' The Little Book [4], 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.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Carl E, Schorske (1980). Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. Vintage. ISBN 978-0394744780.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. http://www.pulitzer.org/. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ book description on Amazon.com
- ^ Selden, Edwards (2008). The Little Book. Dutton Adult. ISBN 978-0525950615.
| Preceded by Gödel, Escher, Bach |
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1981 |
Succeeded by The Soul of a New Machine |
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