Fin-de-siècle Vienna
Cover of the first edition featuring a preliminary sketch of Pallas Athene by Gustav Klimt | |
| Author | Carl E. Schorske |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Geography, sociocultural evolution, ethnology, cultural diffusion |
| Published | 1979 (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover, Paperback |
| Pages | 378 pages (1st edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-394-50596-4 |
Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture is a 1979 transdisciplinary nonfiction book written by cultural historian Carl E. Schorske and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Described by its publisher 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," the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The book is lavishly illustrated with both color and black-and-white reproductions of key artworks, referenced in the text which explains their relevance to the themes in question.