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The Fantastic art of Vienna: Great and Timeless Paintings From a Realm of Laughter and Light, of Brooding, Darkness and Splendid Decadence
Alessandra Comini (Author)
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Sunstone Press
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The Fantastic art of Vienna: Great and Timeless Paintings From a Realm of Laughter and Light, of Brooding, Darkness and Splendid Decadence - Alessandra Comini
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Synopsis "The Fantastic art of Vienna: Great and Timeless Paintings From a Realm of Laughter and Light, of Brooding, Darkness and Splendid Decadence"
Art, music, literature, and science in Vienna at the turn of the last century presented a series of wrenching dualities: reality and illusion, sexuality and death, the external world and the internal self. Celebrated art historian Alessandra Comini explores in a lively, authoritative text the demonic origins of the 1000-year-old Habsburg Empire, easternmost outpost of Christendom against the dreaded Ottoman Turks. Escape from death encouraged a flight from reality and a predilection for the fantastic. Strauss waltzes inspired a collective escapism while a conquering Napoleon entered the city--twice. Vienna's fantastic heritage inspired composer Arnold Schönberg, author Hugo von Hofmannsthal, physician Sigmund Freud and invigorated the work of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Anton Romako, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Kubin, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and the Fantastic Realism of Arnulf Rainer and Friedrich Hundertwasser.
